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Cream of Encyclopaedia. 

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Family Hand Book. 

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PROF.WM. A. TUCKER and JOS. J. HANUS. A 

COPYRIGHTED BY 

TUCKER and IIANUS. 

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1903, in the office 
of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 

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THE CREAM O”* ENCYCLOPAEDIA. 


A Family Hand Book. 


-BY- 

Prof. Wm, A Tucker and Jos. J. Haisus. 


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Divided into ten departments, 
as follows: 


1 . 

A complete Laundry process for washing, starching and. 
ironing all kinds of goods from plain cotton to the finest 
silks, ribbons, hats or kid gloves. 

2 . 

Cosmetique department gives many of the choicest prep¬ 
arations known for preparing and using with safety. 

3 . 

The Medical department is no doubt the most complete 
collection of prescriptions ever collected and published ac¬ 
cording to the number. We have for more than thirty-five 
years souyht for these remedies that from use by special¬ 
ists and other physicians have proyen their value. Many 
of the remedies aie simple home remedies that may be used 
when the Dr. is not convenient, but others are used by 
specialists and will require a regular pharmacist to com¬ 
pound them. 

4. 

The Miscellaneous department is filled with many very 




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valuable ai tides for almost all ’^cessities, many 
never published before, while otheis are collected 1* 
best authorities in Europe and America, secrets tot 
aold for hundreds of dollars. 


5. 

The Paint department is the practical knowledge 
long experience of an old practical painter, made pi 
that any one can do his own work. Also, many v, 
secrets not known by the common painter, 

6 . 

The Farrier department contains secrets never 
published. Also, many choice, simple remedies trc 
best authorities known, for judging, breaking, train; 
and also treating the common diseases of horses, 
remedies for other stock and poultry often worth «•, 
red fold more than the cost of this book to the stc 
by saving one sick horse, mule or cow. 

7. 

The Law department is composed of many valuable 
ciples, facts, points and articles in law that every 
should know for his own protection. 

^ 8. 

Civil Government and Political Economy are s-: 
a practical knowledge of which should be acquired 
«rv man who exercises the solemn rights of th 
Th ^se subjects are condensed and presented in the >i 
and plainest manner ever known to the authors. 

9. 

The Business department comprises business for r. 
tables useful to any practical man. 

10 . 

Choice Songs in English and Bohemian langua; 
some Orations of fame. 


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PJREFACE. 

Impelled by a desire to benefit our wives and children, 
and at the same time give to humanity many times more 
than the amount received from each individual, we know 
of no wav to accomplish our greatest purpose in life than 
to compile in this small book, the price of which will be 
within the reach of the greatest number of people, the most 
valuable information and choicest formulas, both secret 
and published, that came within our knowledge in the past 
thirty five years. 

Led by a desire to know the most valuable and use¬ 
ful things, we have kept a record of what we desired to 
know, buying special formulas, books and encyclopedias 
since our boyhood. 

It is the cream ot the most valuable know^dgecarefully 
gleaned from thousands of pages of many books, besides 
manv special formulas secuied at considerablecostjtbat are 
carefully condensed in this small book which we submit to 
the public upon its intrinsic merits. 

Inventors and authors in their mad rush for wealth and 
fame have failed to recognize one homely subject and give 
to it the degree of attention necessary to discoyer the pro¬ 
cess by which one of the most laborious and at the same 
time one of the most necessary household duties may be 
performed with ease and perfection upon common sense 
and yet scientific principles. There is perhaps nothing in 
the world so universally practiced and so poorly under¬ 
stood as the process by which all kinds of goods may be 
properly laundried. 

Why do not our mothers, wives and sisters give to our 
shirts, cuffs and collars the beautiful white gloss finish th»t 
the laundryman gives them? Is it carelessness or want of 
pride? Do they know how? If they do not know, why 
not? Would they like to know? Where or when di<f 
they ever see a book on the subject? Is the Chinaman or 
laundryman going to give away his secret and trade? 
Please answer these questions for yourself. Then answer 
one more question, will it pay you to buy the first book 
that you ever saw that will teach you how to do this tire¬ 
some weekly job without rubbing, battling and stooping 
over the nasty, dirty hot suds for hours and ruining your 


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hands, health and clothing by the way that has been piac- 
ticed from the earliest times by the good, ancient grand¬ 
mothers and handed down to this modern age of science 
and improvement from mother to daughter in its primeval 
simplicity or ignorance? Or will you go on like the old 
man of Arkan^aw who put a rock in one end of his sack 
and corn in the other to make it balance, when he went to 
mill just because “Father did that way?” Now, don’t say 
oh, it is impossible to do whai the laundryman does six 
day* of eyery week, but say what other people can do 
I can too. 


LAUNDRY DEPARTMENT. 

TO BREAK HARD WATER. 

1-1 Bar soap 1-2 lb., fresh unslacked lime 3oz., sal soda 1-2 
lb. Cut fine the soap and add to one gallon boiling rain 
water with the lime and soda. When dissolved let cool 
until next day, and pour off the clear fluid and bottle for 
future u?e. Use one part of fluid to 10 of water while 
boiling. Clear off the scum. When clothing is ready put 
in and boil 30 to 00 minutes with perforated board or gal¬ 
vanized iron in bottom of boiler and coyer with heavy 
cover to keep in heat. To prepare for boiling the white 
goods, separate the bleached from the unbleached and clean¬ 
est from the dirtiest articles. Never wash them together. 
Soap and soak over night in soft water, or break the water 
by putting in 1 of fluid above to 10 of water. Soap the 
dirtiest parts well before and after soaking. Wring out 
of soak water and rinse before boiling in warm water. Af¬ 
ter boiling lift out into tub of clean water, wring with 
wringer and rinse, wring, blue and dry. 


TO WASH SILKS. 

Wash with sponge and fine soap and rinse with sponge 
and soft water on smooth hoard, uub, partly dry with 
clean cloth, iron on inside. 


TO GLOSS SHIRTS. 

White powdered Gum Arabic 2 oz. Put in a pitcher 





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u* 1 pint boiling water. Let stand all night. Pour 
dully leaving the diege, into a clean bottle. Keep 
Use one tablespoonful to a pint of starch made 
common way. 
is a fine gloss starch. 


TO wash: flannels. 

< in suds of soft water a* hot as the hand can bear, 
rub, but sluice up and down in the suds and rinse 
» water and blue if white, dry ti open air if the 
■ is hne, if not, dry m warm room. 

ien stockings may he laid in hot suds and allowed 
in until cool enough to wash, then rinse in warm 

handkerchiefs must be soaked in cold water, washed 
i suds, rinsed in cold salt water, 
woolen goods should never be washed in hard wa- 
water broken by soda nor rubbed with soap. 

. goods should be thoroughly dusted before wet. 


TO CLEAN FCit'd. 

them in a cold lather, rinse, and shake frequently 
ying. 

nove grease spots from silk, rub it well with mag- 
ter awhile apply a piece of brown paper on the 
ide and iron with hot iron. 


TO CLEAN HATS. 

well and wash with 2 oz of spirits ammonia, and 
t of rain water, usinga sponge and rub with the 
g up to dry; when nearly dry iron with a cloth 
e iron. 

move iron rust, use salt and lemon juice. 


TO CLEAN KID GLOVES. 

ps spirits ammonia, 1-2 pint turpentine; apply 
with brush, fellow with, pumice powder applied 






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with flannel cloth dipped in the mixture and rub off the 
powder; repeat with the powder. 

To remove paint from cloth, turpentine or gasoline ap¬ 
plied with a rag and rubbed until clean. 


TO WASH RIBBONS OF MOST ALL COLORS 
EXCEPT LINK. 


Make a lather of white soap as warm as you can bear 
•and wash tne ribbon in this, soap may be applied to urease 
spots on the wrong side; rinse in cold water and iron on 
wrong side while wet. 

To soak m camphine will take out the grease; rub a lit¬ 
tle with flannel rag and allow to dry somewhat, then iron 
on wrong side. 


TO WASH CALICO. 


Never wash calico in veiv hot water: use hard soap if 
inclined to fade; if the color is red or green add a little 
vinegar to H-e last rinsing water A small amount of Am¬ 
monia put in with colored cloth in washing assists in hold¬ 
ing the color. 


TO GLOSS SHIRTS. 

To each lb. of starch use a piece of sperm or white wtx 
as large a'i a walnut. 

Starch he.-mlv and use a clean, bright iron with round¬ 
ed surface. By lively polishing you get a gloss. 


TO GLOSS HEAVY SILKS. 

Heat the iron and turn it upside down, and cover with 
damp clo:h and draw the silk hack and forth over the 
08 mp, hot ch-th ThN will take oui all wrinkles—will ul- 
straighten woolen goods. 








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Cosmetique Department 


HAIR TONIC. 

Lac, sulphur, sugar of lead, aqua am., borax, alcohol, 
bergamot; of each 1 oz ; bay rum, 1 gill; sott water,three 
pints. Mix. Shake well before using. 


TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OP HAIR OR^BEARD 


Tinct myrrh, 2 oz.; tinct. canthavides, ‘Ho?.; alcoho', 
1 oz.; rain water, 2 oz. Mix. Apply to scalp at bedtime. 


CURE FOR BAD BREATH. 


Foul or bad breath will be removed bv taking a tea-, 
spoonful of the following mixture after each meal: 

One ounce liquor of potassa. 

One ounce chioride of s .da 

One and half oun es phosphate of soda and 3 oz. of water. 


FOR WRINKLES IN THE FACE. 


White wax, 1 ounce; strained honev, two ounces juice 
of |Iily bulbs, two ounces. The foregoing melted and 
stirred together, will remove wnnk es. 


WASH FOR A BLOTCHED FACE. 


Rose water, 3 ounc*s: s*lph oe of zinc, 1 drachm. Miv. 
Wet the face with it. srentlv drv it and then umen it over 
with cold cream, which, also gently dry off. 












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TO REMOVE WARTS FROM THE HANDS. 


Take salicylic acid, 30 grains; extract cannabis endic. 10 
grains; collodion, one-half ounce. Mix and apply. 


TO CLEAR A TANNED SKIN. 


Wash with a solution of carbonate of soda and a little 
lemon juice; then with the juice of unripe grapes. 


TO MAKE HAIR CURL. 


Olive oil, 1 lb; oil of organum, 1 drachm; oil Rosemary 
one and a half drachms. 


TO CLEANSE THE TEETH. 


Chlorate of lime, 1 oz ; soft water, 1 pint; let stand six 
hours; pour off clear water, add 60 diops essence of loses. 


TO SOFTEN AND BLEACH THE SKIN. 


The juice of 4 lemons, and glycerine 4 ounces; camphor- 
me, * re halt ounce; bay rum, 1 ounce; perfume to suit and 
nnx Bathe the face 3 times deily. This will remove 
freckles, tan or blotches. 


(FOR THE TEETH AND GUMS. 


Equal parts myrrh, chalk, lemon juice and rose water. 
Apply vuth brush. 












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HAIR OIL. 


One pt cologne spirits; Castor oil, 2 oz; oil cinnamon, 2 
dracnms. Mix. 


FRECKLES, TO REMOVE, 


Alum, one-half ounce; lemon juice, one -half ounce; rose¬ 
water, one-half pt. Bathe face 3 tunes a day. 


BALDNESS, TO CURE. 


Rum, TOC parts; alcohol 75 parts, rain water, 75 parts; 
tinct. cauthandes, 3 parts; carbonate potash, 5 parts. Mix 
the liquids; dis-olve the salts and til ter and mix all 
Directions:—Wet the head with the mixture and wash 
off with water after waiting 15 or 20 minutes. 


HAIR GROWING LOTIONS. 


Ean de Cologne. 2 oz; tinct. cantharides. 2 drachms, oil 
rosemarv, 10 drops; oil lavender, L0 drops. Mix. Wet 
the hair with it daily, 


PERSPIRING FEET AND HANDS. 


Carbolic acd, 1 part: l>ur• t alum. 4 puffs: oil of lemon, 
2 pm-ts; st iieh, 200 parts;. Er. chalk, ^0 parts; mix and 
iq pj^ to feet or hands. 









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Medical Department 


In submitting to the public this department, please pre- 
mit us to say that we are not claiming superior knowledge 
of this most intricate and incomplete branch of science. 

Every honest physician, no doubt, will admit that it is a 
-science that is continually being developed. Many things 
'that were from standard authority authorized practice forty 
/'years ago,are obsolete or out of use today. But, that only 
^proves that it is a science worthy the term and deserves 
’•the attention of the ablest and best. As the ignorance of 
nhe euoject mav be the key tnat will unlock the door to a 
premature tomb and usher the unprepared candidate for 
^eternal happiness into the presence of the Allwise Dictator 
•'without the preparation necessary for him to become a 
tfiappv member of that pure and holy assemblage prepared 
f >r eteinal bapoiness, we desire to do what we can, not in 
the discovery of new and useful truths but to carefully 
collect and perpetuate those truths that otherwise might 
be lost in the rush for something new. 

We do not desire to oppose the practicing physician, nor 
the professional druggist, but on toe contrary will say 
that they constitute two cf the very aide and respectable 
classes of men without which we would be at a very great 
disadvantage. 

But, we desire to acknowledge our obligations to them 
for the valuable truths we desire to publish. It is from 
the accumulated knowledge of the many i Latwe'getthe cream 
of the whole. In many instances directly from men of 
vknown and acknowledged ability, who were willing to give 
to humanity the benelit of their acquisition. 

The time once was when the great mass o." humanity in 
their ignorance, we e compelled to how in so/did humil¬ 
ity at the feet of Grecian and Roman philosophers and to 
priests and Popes for scientific and moral truths and hum¬ 
bly accent whatever they, in their gracious pleasure, saw 
• fit to give, often for exorbitant compensations. If is true 
yet, strange to say, that it is within the last century that 
« great and happy change has come over the world 



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In this, the 20th century, the age of universal education 
when all may learn to read for themselves. In this age 
of cheap printing and binding by machinery, the greatest 
age of progress, with its universal distribution of books 


KULES FOR HEALTH. 


Pure atmosphere is composed of oxygen, nitrogen and 
a small amount of carbonic acid gas. Air, when breathed, 
loses oxygen and gains carbonic acid gas, which is poi.on, 
hence ventilate all rooms. The solid and fluid parts of the 
body continually waste, hence must be judiciously sup¬ 
plied. The only fluid of the body is water, and no arti- 
ticial drink is better. The fluid of the body is nine to one 
solid. Therefore lequires the same. Light exercises great 
influence over animal or plant life. Therefore admits the 
light in rooms. Decomposing animal or vegetable matter 
yields various noxious gases. When breathed poison the 
blood and cause disease, hence avcid by cleaning up and 
disinfecting about the house. 

Warmth is essential to all the bodity functions. There¬ 
fore avoid extremes in temperature by careful exercise, 
clothing and heating. If in heated room don’t fail to ven 
tilate as the tire consumes the oxygen. 

The skin is a highly oxygenized membrane, full of minute 
pores, cells, blood vessels and nerves. The sKin imbibes 
moisture or throws it off according to the state of the at¬ 
mosphere or temperature of the body; it also breathes like 
the lungs in a less degree. The organs of the body sym¬ 
pathise with the skin; thereforo it should be kept clean. 
Late hours and anxious pursuits exhaust the nervous svs- 
tem, produce disease and premature death, theiefore hours 
of labor or study should be moderate. Mental and bodily 
exercise are both essential to health and happiness, there- 
toreone should follow the other. 

Man will live longer and happier on simple solids and fluid, 
taken moderatelv, sufficiently and regularly, theiefore over 
indulgence in strong drink, tobacco, snuff, opium and mere 




ERRATA. 

This should follow line 4, at top of page 12. 

and papers, we are no longer bound by the chains of ig¬ 
norance, but ever> one may read and know what the phil 
osopher, the priest, the minister or the doctor has learned. 

Then, why should not we break away from the old cus¬ 
toms and think and act without paying some one else to do 
it for us? 

It is reasonable that, in difficult questions, a man who 
makes any particular subject a special study, must be ae 
knowledged a rnoie competent person in that branch of 
science. 

Hence, if you are seriously ill and do not know the 
cause, experience and common sense suggest, call your 
physician at once,for delay is often fatal. But,if you know 
what ails you, and you have good authority, do like the 
doctor—go to that and get the prescription for that case 
and get the druggist to compound it, if necessary, and 
save owing your physician for his unnecessary services, 
and save owing or paying his bill. If he is honest, he 
don’t want to serve you unless you need him. 























































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indulgence should he avoided. Sudden change from heat 
to cold, or drinking cold drinks when warm, or hot teas or 
soup when cold, or sudden changes from heavy to light 
clothing is dangerous. Never visit the sick with empty 
stomache. Always place yourself so as to avoid the odor 
of clothing or breath. Never sit between th® sick and the 
tire as the tire draws the poisonous air, but try to keep be¬ 
tween the ventilation and sick bed. 


RULES FOR THE SICK. 


If seriously sick and you are not sure of the cause call a 
physician at once. In the absence of a physician or before 
he comes if you find the pulse quick, hard, full and strong, 
the head aching, the tongue foul, the skin hot and dry, re¬ 
duce the excitement by purging, low diet, drinking plenty 
of cold water or lemonade, and take rest But if the pulse 
be small, soft, feeble and intermitting, the tongus dark, 
great weakness or disability is evident, reverse the treat¬ 
ment. The diet must be nourishing, the bowels moved by 
gentle laxatives and strength supported by wine, quinine 
and tonics. 

The sicK loom should always be well ventilated for the 
benefit of the sick and the well. Avoid a current of air 
on the sick. Th® strength and velocity of the pulse vary 
in different persons. Adults average about seventy per 
minute, children faster, old age slower. In extreme debil¬ 
ity or death artery feels like a thread. 


DIPTHERIA. 

Lactic Acid 4 dr.. Lime Water 8 oz. MU and use with 
sprayer, If nose is involved, spray it. 


TONSILITIS. 

Alum 20 gr.. Tanic Acid 20 gr., Sulphate of Zinc 
20 gr., Water 1 oz. Mix and inhale, or use with atomizer. 
Don’t swallow. 






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CONVULSIONS. 


Brom|difl^Jl oz. Dose, for adults, about 1-2 teaspoonful - 
every 20 minutes until convulsions stop. For children 5 
to 15 drops every hour. 


ASTHMA CURE. 


Iodide Potash 1-2 oz , Tincture of Gentian 3 oz. Dis¬ 
solve the poiafch in water 1 oz. Mix Dose, 1-2 teaspoon¬ 
ful every two hours until three doses are taken, then use 
a* needed. 


ASTHMA, 


Stramonia leaves 1 oz.. Bel’adonna leaves 1-2 oz , Digi¬ 
talis leaves 1 2 oz.. Saltpeter, pulverized, 1-4 oz. Rub the 
leaves as tine as possible, mix with the saltpeter. Put a 
teaspoon on a plate, set it on fire and inhale the smoke. 


HEADACHE. 


Menthol 1 dr , Chloroform 1 oz. Rub over the pain 
until it begins to burn. 


INDIGESTION. 


Ri-carb. Soda 1 oz , Sub-nitrate Bismuth 1-2 oz., Sugar 
of Peppermint 1 oz., Carbinate Magnesia 1-2 oz. Teaspoon.— 
ful in water at meal time for adults. 









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NEURALGIA. (Internal.) 


Salicylate Soda 1 dr. Div.de into 8 capsules. One cap¬ 
sule every two hours for adults, Use a laxative. 


FOR TAPE WORM. 


Pumpkin Seed 1 dr., Etherial Extract Male Fern 1 dr.. 
Pomegranate Root Bark 12 oz., Powdered Gum Arabic 2 
dr., Powdered Ergot 30 gr., Croton Oil 2 drops. Direc¬ 
tion* for mixing. The seed, bark and ergot must be thor¬ 
oughly rubbed together. Boil 25 minutes in 8 oz. water 
and strain through coarse cloth. Croton Oil, Male Fern 
and Gum Arabic well nibbed and mixed together and 
formed into an emulsion with the decoction or tea above. 
Take a good dose of Rochelle Salts rt night. Eat no break¬ 
fast next morning. Take the above remedy all at one dose 
* about 10 o’c ock the same morning. It can be guaranteed 
t© cure. 


VERMIFUGE FOR CHILDREN. 


FI. Ext. Cascara Sagrada 1 oz., Stantomine 1 dr., Syrup 
Rhubarb 2 oz. Teaspoonful night and morn till worms 
are expelled, 


BURNS OR SCALDS. 


Lime Water and Raw Linseed Oil equal parts, mix well 
and apply with cotton. 


KIDNEY REMEDY, 


FI. Ext. Uva Urs., FI. Ext. Buchu. FI. Ext. Cascara Sa¬ 
grada, of each 1 oz , Syrup Rhubarb 3 oz. Mix well. 










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Adults, teaspoonful three times per day. If the bowels 
move too much take less. 


ASTHMA CURE. 


Fluid Extract Seullcap 1 dr., Fluid Extract of Skunk 
Cabbage 1 dr., Spirits Lavender Compound 2 oz., Tinctnre 
Valerian 1 dr. Mix well. Dose, 20 drops every 2 hoars 
as needed, for adults. 


DIPTHERIA. 


Acid Phosphor|t&/ Dilute 1-2 oz., Tincture Chloride of 
Bgi© 1*2 oz., Spirits of Lemon 2 dr., White Sugar 2 dr., 

1 Water 6 oz. Dose, teaspoonful every 2 or 3 hours until 
relieved. 


NEURALGIA OF FACE. 


Nitrate of Amyl 5 drops on blotting paper. Inhale. If 
necessary inhale again untilr elieved. 


DIPTHERIA. 


Bromine 5 gi\, Bromide Potash 5 gr^ Water 1 oz. Mix. 
Use with atomizer or spray. 


IFDIAN BARK AND HERB TONIC. 


Alcohol and Ram Water each 1 qt. Mix and add Wild 
Cherry Bark, Peruvian Baris, Dogwood Barx and Cinna¬ 
mon Bark each 1 oz., Aloes 2 oz , Quinine, Oil Cloves and 
Oil of Sassafras each 1 dr., Oil of Tar 2 dr., also, one 25 ct 











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package of Simmons Livev Regulator, Let stand two 
davs and add 1-2 gallon ot water and 1 lb sugar. Shake 
well and it is ready for use. Dose, adult, 20 minutes be¬ 
fore meals, 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls 3 iimes per day. For 
chills and fever begin ten hours before chill time and take 
1 tablespoontul every 2 hours until after chill time; then 
when you miss chill take 1 tablespoonful 3 times per day. 
For children 1 teaspoonful is a dose. 

Indian Bark and Herb Tonic cures chills and fever, liyer 
complaint, kidney disease, impure blood, sick headache, 
diarrhoea, dysentery, flux, coughs, colds, rheumatism, 
neuralgia, malarial disorders, chronic stomache and bowel 
troubles?, also, a good tonic for females. 


MEDICAL TERMS , 


Anthelmintics—Xedicines for worms. 

Antispasmodics—For spasms or contractions. 

Aromatics —Agreeable smell or pungent taste. 
Astringents—Make bodies firmer. 

Qithar trees—Excelerate the action of the bowels. 
Demulcents—Prevent the action of acid and stimulating 
substances on membrane. 

Diaphoretics—Cause perspiration. 

Dieuretics—Act upon the kidneys to increase action. 
Emetics—Produce vomiting. 

Emmenagogues—Promote menstruation. 

Epaspastics—Cause blisters. 

Escharotics—Distroy parts of the flesh. 

Expectorants—For the lungs. 

Narcotics—Cause sleep and reduce the nervous and vascu¬ 
lar action. 

Sedatives—Allay the action of the system. 

Stimulants—Excite vital energy. 

Tonics—Increase the tone or action or strength. 




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SMALLPOX AND SCARLET FEVER. 


The following recipe lias been published by the most 
scientific medical school in the world, and is said to be a 
certain cure: 

Sulphate of zinc, 1 gr. 

Digitalis, 1 grain. 

Mix with one-half teaspoon of water; when well mixed 
add to 4 oz. ot water, shake well and take 1 tablespoonful 
eyery hour. Either disease will disappear in 12 hours. 
For children, doses smaller, according to ages. 


FOR DROPSY. 


Best Holland gin, 1 qt; ground mustard, 4 oz, mix and 
shake well. Take 1 tablespoonful every 2 hours. 


CHILL TONIC. 


Sulphate of quinine, 2 drachm; citiate of iron, 1 drachm; 
com tincture of cinchona, 2 oz; tincture of nux , 1 crachm; 
nit. acid, 1 drachm simple syrup, 4 oz. Mix. Dose— 
Teaspoonful 3 times per day. Children according to ages. 


PNEUMONIA CURE. 


In all curable stages, use a mild laxative to move the 
bowels—sweating teas, also. The main point is make a 
large meal and red pepper poultice and apply hot over 
the entire chest and allow it to burn well. Use at least u 
hand full of red pepper—either the ground as bought from 







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the trade, or the pods parched in an oven and pulver¬ 
ized. 

It has relieved when other treatment was given up. 


LIVER PELLETS. 


Leptandrin, 1 dr; Powdered May apple, 1 dr; Sangtfi- 
nariep 30 or; cayenne, 30 or; powdered opium. 10 «r; mix 
well and fill 60 capsules, or make 60 pills as may be de¬ 
sired. Dose from 1 to 3 


FOR CONSUMPTION. 


One teaspoonful of hoarhound herbs, bruise and mix 
with a cup of new milk. Drink warm every running. 


IN FL AM M ATOR Y RHEUM AXIS M. 


Cut up a handful of bearfoot roots- fresh roots if you 
can get them—and put i to a qt. of good w’nLkev and use 
freel\ r . This will cause profuse perspiration. Also bathe 
with some good liniment and move the bowels freely. 

Liniment—Coal oil, 4 oz, tincture of camphor, 3 oz; tur¬ 
pentine, 1 oz; chloroform, 2 oz. Apply and rub fre¬ 
quently. 


MENINGITIS REMEDY. 


Oil turpentine, oil cedar, tincture iodine, tincture can 
tharides, oii sassafras, aqua ammonia: of each one-half oz.. 
laudanum and chloroform", of each one-fourth ounces 













Mix »©il shake well. Use as a liniment. For meningitis 
rub ibt spine from head downward, apply freely; for 
white swelling and other painful swelling, and other simi¬ 
lar trouble, bathe the parts freely. 


EYE WATER FOR COMMON SORE EYES. 




Cloves pulverized, 1 teaspoonful; pure white sugar, 1 
teaspooniul; sulphate of zinc, one-half teaspoonful. Mix 
well and divide into three equal parts. 

Boil three fresh hen eggs and cut them in two; take out 
the yellow and take off the shells, and put one-third of 
the compound in the white of each egg. Wash the hands 
clean and put the eggs, all at same time, in a clean, strong 
while cloth and press out the water iu*o a clean cup; then 
pot the egg water into a clean bottle and cork tightly. 

Drop tw o or three drops in the sore eyes three or 
lour times per day Never apply with rag or linger. 
This will be all the eye water a large family will need in 
one year. I have known this remedy to be used at many 
different times for 32 years and never has failed to 
cure in a short time. It is said to be an English remedy 
that sold for $100.00. Try it. 


FOR HYDROPHOBIA. 


'&tablespoonfuls fresh Chloride Lime, 1-2 pint water. 
Bathe part freely. (M. Cassar, Paris, France ) 

ANOTHER. 

Wash the wound with warm vinegar or water, apply a 
few drops of Muriatic Acid, 


YELLOW JAUNDICE. 


Solid Extract of Oentian 3 oz., Good Whisky I qt. 
Drase, 1 2 to 1 oz. three or four times per day. 









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FOR PAINS AND ACHES. 


MAGIC LINIMENT. 

Alcohol, 4 oz; Aqua Ammonia, 2 oz; Gum Camphor, 
1-2 oz; Laudanum, L2oz; Chloroform 2 oz; Gasoline Oil* 
1-2 pint; Water, 1 oz; Turpentine, 1 oz; the wh-ite of one 
egg beaten. 

Put the gasoline and egg in a large bottle, .shake well, 
then add the alcohol and camphor and shake again, then 
the other articles, shake and let stand a day. It is good 
for man or best. Apply externally. 


CHOLERA AND CHOLERA MORBUS CURE, 


French Brandy, 2 oz; Tincture Cardamon, 1-2 oz; Tinct¬ 
ure Jamaica Ginger, 1-2 oz: Tincture Capsicum* US'dr; 
tincture Cinnamon, 1 drachm Laudanum, 1-2 drachm. 
Mix. Dose, 1 desert spoonful every hour or so uU re¬ 
lieved. Children in proportion to age. 


PAIN KILLER. 


Tincture Arnica, 1 oz- Oil Sasafras, 1 oz;' Oil Cedar, 1 
oz; Spirits Ammonia, 1-2 oz; Gum Camphor, 1 drachm; 
Oil Cayenne, 1 drachm; Alcohol, 4 ounces. Mix for a few 
hours, and apply externally with the hand; rub well. 


MAGIC LINIMENT, NO. 2. 


Oil Hemlock, 2 oz: Headlight Oil, 2 oz; Linseed Oil, 4 
oz, Oil Mustard, I drachm; Alcohol, 2 oz. Mix. Good 
for rheumnthm and pafntul swellings. Apply externally. 


INTERNAL REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM. 


Gum Guiac, 2 oz; Juniper Benies, 1 oz; Fluid Extract 









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Poke JBeriies, 1-2 oz; Wine Colchicum, 1 oz; good Whis¬ 
ky. 1*2 pint. Mix and let stand 5 days. Dose for adult, 
tablespoonful three times a day. 

EUROPEAN TREATMENT FOR ULCERATED 
BOWELS. 


Directions: Soak the kernels of five Almonds in water 
about one minute and peal ®ft the skin and pulverize the 
kernels weil, then add this to about two ounces of water, 
then add two tablespoonfuls of pure Olive Oil; next add 
teaspoonful of white sugar. 

Stir well and take all at one dose one hour before each 
meal three times per day. Do not mix until near the time 
to be used, as it will sour unless kept on ice. 

Eat boiled lettuce at neon each day, seasoned with a 
little salt and olive oil. Eat no meats nor fats, but eat 
moderately rice, boiled milk, bread and little butter, one 
very soft boiled egg at each meal if wanted. Use no cof¬ 
fee, nor beer, nor strong drink. Tea may be used. Con¬ 
tinue this treatment three days gradually increasing the 
dose if the ktomache will bear it; in about three or four 
days you will have griping pains for a short time; don’t 
feel alarmed, this is a sign you are better. Continue to 
use the treatment until blood and mucus disappears, then 
twice per day for two days, then once per day for one 
week. 

Dunng'this treatment you must steam yourself by sit¬ 
ting at least 15 minutes on a chamber half full of hot wa¬ 
ter with about an ouuce of pulverized burnt alum: use as 
hot as you can bear. 

Be careful until well about food and drink anct you will 
bfe permanently cured. 

This remedy has cured many where physicians have failed. 
It is safe; try it. 


PILE OINTMENT. 


Extract Belladonna, 1-2 oz; White of one Egg; Char 







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coal, 1 drachm; Vaseline, 2 oz; Gum Camphor, 1-2 dr; 
Mix. Apply externally. Move the bowels with Cream of 
Tartar. 


FOR JAUNDICE. 


Powdered Black Root, Quinine, English Calomel, of 
each 1 drachm. Mix. Fill 12 capsules, 

Dose.—Take 3 or 1 per day till the liver is aroused to 
its wonted activity. Children, dose according to age. 

After taking the capsules follow with these bitters: 
Comp. Tincture Cincfait^Tinctiire Gentian, of each 2 oz; 
Citrate of Iron,A drachm; Whisky, 1 pint. 

Dose for adult, tablespoonful three times per day before 
meals. 

Dose for children according to age. 


FOR SORE THROAT. 


Chlorate Potash; 2 drachms; Tincture Golden Seal, 1 oz; 
Carbolic Acid, 1 drachm; Glycerine, 1 oz; Water. 6 oz. 
Miz. Use as garg.e often. 


A GARGLE FOR THE THROAT. 


Alum, 1 oz; Glycerine, 2 oz; Water, 1 pint. Mix. Shake 
and use freely. It is cooling and healing for all sore 
throats. 


FEVER DROPS. 


Sweet Spirits of Nitre, 2oz; Tincture Gelseminum, 1 dtf 
Bro: Potash, 2 dr; Water, 2 oz. Mix. 









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Dose.—Teaspoonful every 2 to 4 hours. Children 10 to 
15 drops . 

Will relieve spasms. 


ELIXIR OF LIFE. 


Powdered Opium, 1-2 oz; Powdered Kino, 1-2 oz; Nut¬ 
meg, 1-2 oz; Cmcfy&Ha, 1-2 oz; Gum Camphor, 30 gr; 
Brandy, 1 pt. Mix, Let stand 6 hours. 

Dose—30 to 40 drops in syrup;, for children, 10 to 20 
drops. 


COUGH SYRUP. 


Syrup Cherry Bark, 2 oz; Syrup Tolu, 2 oz; Syrup Ip¬ 
ecac, 2 drachms; Syrup Squills, 1 oz; Tincture Camphor, 
2 dr; Paregoric, 1 oz. Mix. 

Dose, desert spoonful 3 or 4 times per day. Children, 
10 to 20 drops. 


AN EXCELLENT TONIC. 


Tincture Coll umbo, 2 oz; Tincture Gentian, 2 oz, Syrup 
Cherry Bark, 2 oz; Cit. Iron, 2 drachms. 

Dose—For adult, tablespoonful 3 times per day. 


FOR THE BLOOD. 

Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla, 2 oz; Cosap. Syrup Stillingiae 
2 oz; Fluid Extract Polk Root, 1 oz; Iodide Potas, 3 
drachms. Mix. 

Dos&.—Teaspoonful 3 times per day, adults. 


A TONIC FOR NERVOUSNESS. 

Bromide Potash, 1 oz; Tincture Gelsemnium, 2 drachms;. 
Tincture Digitalis, 1 diaehm; water, 4 oz. Mix. 

Dose, for adult, teaspoontu l 3 times per day. 











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EYE WATER. 


Sulphate Zinc, 10 grains; Sulphate Morphine, 5 grains; 
Glycerine, 1 oz; RoseWater, 2 oz. Mix, 

Put a few drops in the eyes 3 times per day. 


a great cancer cure. 


Chloride Zinc, 1-2 oz; Brown's Cobalt, 2 oz; Gum Ara¬ 
bic. 1 oz; Powdered Blood Root, 1-2 ounce. 

Dissolve the gum arable in 3 ounces rain water. 

Dissolve the Zinc in 5 drops of the mucilege in a saucer. 
Next add 1 teaspoonful each of the cobalt and blood root; 
work into a stiff, stickev paste; if too stiff add more mp-ei* 
lage; if too soft add more of each of the cobalt and blood 
root. When well mixed put into big mouthed bottle and 
stop with glass stopper. 

To use. Spread on a piece of clean white cotton cloth 
that will just cover the cancer a thick coat of the plaster 
aud apply directly to the cancer and let stay 21 hours; 
then take it off .and apply another the same way and let 
remainr 21 hours; then remove and apply a good healing 
salve until the cancer drops out. 

A good salve to use is mutton suet, sweet oil and bees¬ 
wax, each 2 oz; rosin, 1 oz. Melt together and apply on 
a cloth. 

If two applications fail to cure a rose cancer, may re¬ 
quire the third or fourth application, removing the dead 
parts each time. If the plaster is too severe add to it 
about 1-2 oz of extract of Belladonna, mixing it well. If 
much inflamed bathe around the cancer with a solution of 
citric acid in water frequently. . Use a blood purifier. 


DIPTHERf A REMEDY. 


Gargle Lemon Juice and swallow some of the juice. 







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An experienced. physician burns Sulphur in the room to 
relieve bad cases of diptheria. 

MEMBRANOUS CROUP. 


Ur. Peterson’s remedy, Muriate Tincture of Iron. 

D ose .—For a child 2 years old, 10 drops in a little syrup 
and 6 grains ot Quinine. For common croup 1-2 the 
above dose will be enough. 


TOOTHACHE. 


Oil Cloves, 1 part; Oil of Cassia, 3 parts; Laudanum, 2 
parts; Mix and apply on cotton in or around tooth. 


TOBACCO HABIT ANTIDOTE. 


1st, resolve to quio, and get ten cents worth of Gentian 
Root; when you era '® tobacco chew some of this and swal¬ 
low the saliva. In a few weeks thank God you are free. 


FOR STIFF JOINTS. 


Neatsfoot Oil, 2 oz; Oil Cedar, Oil Hemlock, Linseed 
Oil, of each 2 oz; Tincture Cayenne, 1 oz; Beef Gall, 4 oz. 
Mix well and rub the joints 3 times per day. 


DEAD SHOT ON TAPE WORM. 


Three oz pulverized Pumpkin Seed; Pomegranate Bark, 
3 oz. Boil these slowly for one hour in a pint of water; 
strain. Eat a light supper at bed time; take a dose of 
salts. Eat no breakfast. At 10 a. m. begin to take the de¬ 
coction. Take it all at 3 doses 1 hour apart. At 2 p. m. 












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take a free dose of salts, and the tape worm will pass be¬ 
fore 6 p. m. 

A physician in New York made a fortune with this 
remedy. 

Pumpkin seed tea alone will often give relief if used as 
above. 


IVY POISON. 

Bathe the parts with Sweet Spirits of Nitre, add a little 
Gun Powder. A sure cure. 


FOR CHILDREN. 


A SURE CURE FOR DIARRHOEA. 


Pure Pepsin£-2 dr; Sub. Nit. of Bismuth, 1 dr; common 
Soda, 1 dr. Mix with 2 oz Glycerine. 

Dose.—Teaspoonful before nursing. An infallible cure. 


FOR PRICKLY HEAT. 


Carbolic Acid, 20 drops; Water, 1 pint. Mix. 
with it at bed time. A specific foe all asres. 


Bathe 


FLUX AND DYSENTERY. , 


A full dose of Castor Oil with 5 drops of Laudanum will 
often relieve adults. Follow up with the Cholera mixture 
in this book, if necessary. 


FOR CHILDREN. (FLUX). 

Give the following: Syrup Ginger, 1 oz; Glycerine, 2 










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oz; Peppermint water, 1 oz; Pepsin, 1 drachm; Paregoric 
1 oz. Mix. 

Dose.—From 10 to 30 drops, according to age. Try it. 
Children with diarrhoea should be bathed every day 
with Water, 1 gal; Bicarbonate Soda, 1 oz. 


CATARRH. 


Salisin, 2 dr; Blood Root, 2 dr. Mix and fill 24 capsules: 
take 3 per day before meals, for adults. For children, in 
proportion to age. 

For douche to be used with above: Iodine, 60 drops; 
Soft Water, 1 qt, Salt, 1 drachm, and a small amount of 
Golden Seal. Use two or three times per day. 


FOR BURNS 


Lime Water, Olive Oil and Glycerine, equal parts, to be 
applied with lint. 


FOR PLEURISY. 


Hot salt dampened with vinegar, in a woolen sack. Ap¬ 
ply hot. . 


CATARRH REMEDY. 


Smoke Cubebs in a pipe, emitting smoke through the 
nose. 


TO CHECK VOMITING. 


Teaspoohful of Mustard in glass of warm water, for 
adults. 









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TO REDUCE FLESH. 


Drink freely Sassafras Tea. This, with lemon, is as good 
a ; any known remedy. 


TEMPORARY RELIEF FOR ASTHMA. 


Burn Saltpetre on a plate in the room at night. 


FOR TOOTHACHE. 


Oil of Cloves. Chloroform, Spirits of Ether, of each 10 
drops on cotton; apply to the cavity. Speedy relief. 


FOR CROUP 


Alum, one part; sugar, 2 parts Dose—Teaspoonful; 

repeat every few minutes until you give three or four 
doses, if necessary. This will generally give relief. Coal 
oil applied external 1} T and a small amount swallowed is al 
so good. An emitic is often necessary. 


INSTANTANEOUS PAIN KILLER. 


Equal parts aqua am.; sul. ether, and alcohol. Apply 
over the pain. _ . 

WHOOPING COUGH. 


Pulvei. borax, 1 oz; white sugar, 2 oz; pulver. camphor, 
2 drachms. Mix well. Give 5 to 10 grains three or four 
times per day. 











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A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR WHOOPING COUGH. 


Pine tar, 2 oz; one pint of apple vinegar; one pint of 
good molasses. Mix and simmer one hoar. 

Dose.—Tabiespoonful three times per clay. 


ASTRINGENT DROPS 


Compound Tincture of Catechu, 1 oz; Paregoric, 1 oz 
Dose.—Teaspoonful ever/ two hours. Children in pro¬ 
port on to age. 


SUPPRESSED MENSES. 

Oil Sayiu, Oil Pennyroyal, Oil Tansy, Oil Rosemaiy, 
Tincture Cantharides, of each 1-2 oz; Red Wine, 1-2 pL 
Mix. 

Dose—Teaspoonful 3 times per day. 

Take at the same time Tincture Gentian, Tincture Or¬ 
ange Peel, Tincture Columbo Root, 'Tincture Black Snake 
Root, of each 1 oz; Wine, 1 oz. Mix. 

Dose.—Tablespoonful 3 times per day. 


FOR DEAFNESS. 

* _ 


Drop 3 diops Glycerine in ear at night. In the morning 
syringe out with warm water. Continue several days. 


CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. 


Sulphate Iron, 10 grains; Peppermint water, 4 oz; Tinct¬ 
ure Nutmeg, 1 oz. 

Take tablespoonful morning and evening. 










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TOOTHACHE AND NEURALGIA. 


Alcohol, 1 oz; Laudanum, 2 drops; Camphor Gum, 1-2 
oz; Chloroform, l drops; Oil Cloves, 10 drops; Sulphuric 
Ether, 7 drops; Oil Lavender, 1 drop. 

Mix and bottle. Apply to gums and on the face, and to 
cavity on lint for toothache. Bathe for neuralgia over 
the pain. 


SIGNS OF Die EASE IN INF ANTS. 

In the case of a baby not yet able to talk, it must cry 
when-ill. The colic makes baby cry loud,and passionately, 
and shed tears—stopping for a moment and beginning 
again. If the chest is effected, it gives one sharp cry, 
breaking off immediately, as if crying hurt it. Lf the 
head is effected, it cries in sharp, piercing shrieks, with 
low moans and wails between. Or, there may be quiet 
dozing, and startings between It is easy enough to per 
ceive, where a child is attacked by disease, that there has 
some change taken place; for either its skin will be dry 
and hot, its appetite gone; it is stupidly sleepy or fretful 
or crying; it L thirsty, or pale and languid, or in some 
way betrays that something is wiong When a child vom¬ 
its, or has a diarrhoe t, or is cost’-ve, and feverish, it is 
owing to some derangement, and needs attention. But 
these various symptoms may continue for a day or two 
before the nature of the disease can be determined. A 
warm bath, warm drinks, etc , can do no harm and may 
help to determine the case. On coming out of the bath, 
and being well rubbed with the hand, the skin will show 
symptoms of rash if it is a skin disease which has com¬ 
menced. By r the appearen^e of the rash the nature of the 
disease may be learned. Measles are in the patches, dark 
red, and come out first about the face, lf scarlet fever is 
impending the skin will Iook a deep pink all over the body 
though more so about the neck and face. Chicken-pox 
shows fever, but not so much running at the nose, and 
appearances of cold, as in measles, nor is there as much of 
a cough. Besides the spots are smaller, and do not run 
much together, and are more different over the whole sur¬ 
face of the skin; and enlarge into blisters in a day or two. 




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TEST FOR CARBONIC ACID IN WATER. 


Take equal parts of water and clear lime water. If com- 
bmal or free carbonic acid is present, a precipitate is seen, 
to which, if a few drops of .muriatic acid be added, an er- 
fervescence commences. 


TEST FOR MAGNESIA IN WATER. 


Boil the water to a twentieth part of its weight and 
then drop a few grains of neutral carbonate of ammonia 
into a glass of it, and a few drops of phosphate of soda. 
If magnesia be present it will fall to the bottom. 


TEST ACID IN WATER. 


Take a piece of litmus paper If it turn red, there must 
be acid. If it precipitates on adding lime water, it js car¬ 
bonic acid. If a blue sugar paper is turned red, it is a 
mineral acid. 


FISH BONE IN THE THROAT. 


A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually de 
tach a fish bone if lodged in the throat. 


TEST IRON IN WATER. 


1st. Boil a little Nutgall and add to the water. If it 
turns gray or slate, black iion is present. 2. Dissolve 
a little prussiate of potash and if iron is present it will 
turn blue. 












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TEST FOR LIME IN WATER. 


Info a glass of water put two drops of oxalic and blow 
upon it. If it gets milky, lime is present. 


TEST HARD OR SOFT WATER. 


Dissolve a sma’l quantity of good soap in alcohol. Let a 
few drops fall into a glass of water. If it turns* milky it 
is hard; if not, it is soft. 


TEST FOR EARTHY MATTER OF ALKALI 
IN WATER. 


Take litmus paper dipped in vinegar, and if, on immer¬ 
sion, the paper returns to its true shade, the water does 
not contain earthly matters or alkali. If a few drops of 
syrup be added to water containing an earthly matter it 
will turn green. 


DROWJNING TREATMENT. 

1, Loosen clothing, if any. 2. Empty lungs of water by 
laying b?dv on its stomache and lfting it up by the mid¬ 
dle so that the head hangs down, Jerk the body a few 
times. 3. Pull tongue forward, using handkerchief, or 
pin with string if necessary. 4. Imitate the motion of res¬ 
piration by alternately compressing and expanding the 
lower ribs, about 20 times a minute. Alternately raising 
and Lowering the arms from the sides up above the head 
will stimulate the action of the lungs. Let it be done gent¬ 
ly but persistently. 5. Apply warmth and friction to ex¬ 
tremities. 6. By holding the tongue forward, closing tne 
nostrils and pressing the “Adam’s apple” back (so as to 
close entrance to stomache), direct inflation may be tried. 
Take a deep breath and breathe it forcibly into the mouth 








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of the patient, compress the chest to expel the air, and re¬ 
peat the operation. 7. Don't give up ! People have been 
saved after hours of patient, vigorous effort. When breath¬ 
ing begins get patient into a warm bed, give warm drink, 
or spirits, in teasnoonful dose, fresh air and quiet. Do not 
forget this valuable treatment. 


THE PLAGUE. OR ‘ BLACK DEATH.’' 


From the earliest history it has periodically appeared in 
Asia and Africa. In 1342 the plague appeared in Europe 
and has visited most countries since then. In 1348 it made 
its first visit to England at Dorset, then to London, and 
soon it embraced the kingdom. England became a mere 
pest house. One writer asserts that half the population 
perished. ab( ut 2,500,000 souls of England alone. Germ¬ 
any lost 1,244 434; Italy over half the population. Dur¬ 
ing the first appearance it is estimated that Europe lost 
more than 25 000,000 souls. About 13,000,000 in China, 
and 24,000,000 in adjacent Asiatic states. It extended into 
Africa also It is impossible to conceive the horrors of 
such times. As it is so dangerous we should guard against 
the spiead more than to study the remedy. 

The symptoms are the spitting or vomiting of blood, the 
breaking out of inflammatory boils in parts or over the 
whole body, the appearance of daik blotches upon the skin. 
Many lives may be saved by opening the hard boils 

If the above symptoms should appear apply to the phy¬ 
sician or health officer immediately and avoid contact with 
your friends until }^our doctor informs you that it is safe. 


OINTMENT FOR SORE NIPPLES. 


Glycerine, Rose Water and Tannin, equal weight, rubbed 
together into an ointment is very highly recommended for 
sore or cracked nipples. 


BILIOUS COMPLAINTS. 


Take root and branch of Dadelion and steep it in soft 
water a sufficient length of time to extract all the essence 







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then strain the liquid and simmer until it becomes quite 
thick. 

Dose.—From one to three glasses per day may be taken 
with good effect 


TO STOP BLOOD. 


t 

Take fine dust of tea, or scrapings of the inside of tanned 
leather. Bind it upon the wound closely, and blood will 
soon cease to ffow. 

BOWELS SWELLED IN CHILDREN. 


Bathe the stomache of the child with Catnip steeped 
mixed with fresh Butter and Sugar. 


CHOLERA. CURE. 


Take Tincture Cayenne, Peppermint, Camphor, Lauda¬ 
num and Compound Tincture Rhubarb, of each equal parts. 
Dose, 1C to 30 drops. In case of diarrhoea, lake a dose of 
10 to 20 drops in three or four teaspoonsful of waiter. No 
one who has this by him and takes it in time will ever 
have cholera. 


MIXTURE OF CASTOR OIL. 


Castor Oil, 1 teaspoonful; Magnesia, 1 teaspoonfuh Rub 
together into a paste. By this combination the taste of 
oil is almost entirely concealed, and children take it with 
out opposition. 


OINTMENT FOR ITCH. 


Taj^e Bichloride ot Mercury, 1 oz; Lard, 1 pound; Suet, 
1 pound; Hydrochloride Acid, 1 1-2 oz. Melt and well 










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mix, and when perfectly cold stir in Essence of Lemon, 4 
drachms; Essence of Bergamot, 1 drachm. Mix. A por¬ 
tion of this ointment must be well rubbed on the parts af¬ 
fected, night and morning. 


PAINTER’S COLIC. 


Make of Tartaric 4cid a syrup similar to that of lemon 
syrup; add a sufficient quantity of water, and drink two or 
three glasses a day. 


TESTS FOR REAL DEATH. 


As many instances of parties being buried alive, they 
being to all appearance dead, the great importance of 
knowiug how to distinguish real' from imaginary death 
need not be explained. The appearances which mostly ac¬ 
company death are an entire stoppage of breathing, of the 
heart’s action, the eyelids are partly closed, the eyes glassy 
and the pupils usually dilated; the jaws are clinched, the 
fingers partially contracted, and the lips and nostrils more 
or less covered with frothy mucus, with increasing pallor 
and coldness of surface, and the muscles soon become rigid 
and the limbs fixed in their position. But as these same 
conditions may also exist in certain other cases of suspen¬ 
ded animation, great care should be observed whenever 
there is the least doubt concerning it to prevent the un¬ 
necessary crowding of the room in which the coipse is, or 
of parties crowding around the body; nor should the body 
be allowed to remain lying on the back without the tongue 
being so secured as to prevent the glottis or orifice of the 
windpipe being closed by it; nor should the face be closely 
covered; nor rough usage of any kind be allowed. In case 
there is great doubt, the body should not be allowed to be 
inclosed in the coffin, and under no circumstances should 
burial be allowed until there are unmistakable signs of de¬ 
composition. 

Of the numerous methods proposed as signs for real 





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death, we select the following: 1; So long as breathing 
continues the surface ot a mirror held to the mouth and 
nostiils will become dimmed with moisture, 2. If a small 
thread or strong cord be tied tightly round the finger of a 
living person the portion beyond the cord or thread will 
become red and swollen; if dead, no change is produced. 
3. If the hand of a living peison is held before a strong 
light a portion of the margin or edges of the fingers is 
translucent—if dead, every part of it is opaque. 4, A 
bright steel needle introduced between the toes and allowed 
to remain for one-half an hour if not tarnished life exists. u 


WEEPING EYE CURE. 


Chamomile Tea; wash the eye night and morning. 


BONE FELON CURE. 


1st. One half teaspoonful of water. Stir into an ounce 
of Venice Turpentine until the mixture appears like gran¬ 
ulated honey. Wrap a good coating of it around the fin¬ 
ger with a cloth. If the feloq is only recent the pain will 
be removed in six hours. 2. As soon as the part begins 
to swell wrap it with a cloth saturated thoroughly with 
Tincture of Lobelia, An old physician says that he has 
known this to cure scores of cases,"and that it never fails 
if applied in season._ 

FOR CHAPPED LIPS. 


1st. Oil of Almonds, 3 oz; Spermaceti, 1-2 oz: Virgin 
Rice, 1-2 oz. 

Melt these together over a slow fire, mixing with them 
a little powder or Alkane Root to color it. Keep stirring 
till cold; add also a few drops of Oil of Rhodium. 

2nd. Take Oil of Almonds, Spermaceti, White Wax and 
White Sugar, equal' parts; these form a good white lip 
salve. 







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FOR SORE LIPS. 


Make a strong tea of White Oak Bark and wash the lips 

with the tea.______ 

MUMPS TREATMENT. 


Use mild diet, gentle laxatives, occasional hot fomenta¬ 
tion and wearing a piece of flannel around the throat. Be¬ 
ware of heavy work or heavy lifting or exposure. 


FOR BARBER ITCH. 


Moisten the affected parts with saliva and rub with 
good Havana cigar ashes three times per day. 


TO STOP BLOOD. 


Flour and salt in quantity bound to the cut by cloth and 
allow to remain some time. # 


TO. t STOP BLOOD. 


Potash, 1 drachm; Castile Soap, 1 oz; Brandy, 2 oz. 

Mix. 

Apply with cotton by wetting the cotton and touching 
the wound with it to cauterize the parts. Apply warm. 


RATTLESNAKE BITE. 


Indigo, 4 oz; Gum Camphor, 8 dr; Alcohol, 8 oz. Mix 
and cork. Apply freely to the wound. The cute is certain. 










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FOR SNAKE BITE. 


Bind powdered Alum to the bite and take tablespoonful 
in glass of water, or take dry if water is wanting. 


UNCLE SAM’S NERVE AND BONE LINIMENT. 


Oil Organum, 4 oz; Oil Rosemary, 4 oz; Oil of Amber. 
4 oz; Oil of Hemlock, 4 oz; Turpentine, 4 oz; Linseed Oil 
6 oz. Mix. Use externally. 


NEURALGIA. 


Tincture of Aconite Root, 1 oz; Tincture of Arnica, 2 
oz; Oil of Camphor, 1 oz; Oil of Cajeput, 1 1-2 oz; Chlo¬ 
roform, 1 oz; Alcohol, 1 pint. 

Mix and rub in well. 


FLUID LIGHTNING. 


Alcohol, 4 oz; Glycerine, 1 oz; Extract of Aconite 1 gr- 
Oil Mustard, 1 dr. Mix. 

Apply as liniment. 

This has been jsold at $25.00 to $100 00 for rheumatisn 
or sciatica. 


HAMLIN’S WIZARD OIL. 


Chloroform, 2 oz; Oil of Sassafras, 2 oz; Tincture Cam 
phor, 2 oz; Tincture Opium, 2 oz; Aqua Ammonia. 2 oz 
Alcohol, 1 gallon. 

Filter and color if desired. Use as liniment 








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FOR T SR ASM. 


Sage, 1 teaspoonful; Water, 1 teaspoonful. Make a tea. 
Add in tea Boiax, 1 teaspoonful; Alum, 1 teaspoonful;. 
Pure honey, 1 teaspoonful. 

Wrap a. soft, clean, white cloth around a small stick and 
mop the sores with the decoction, or use atomizer. 


ONE MINUTE CROUP REMEDY. 


Powdered Alum, about 1 teaspooniul; Sugar, 2 teas 
poonsful. Mix and give as quickly as possible. The ef¬ 
fects will be truly magical. 


FOR CONSUMPTION 


Tar, 1 tablespoonful to the yolks of three hen eggs raw. 
beat them well together and add sugar or honey to one 
t iblespoonful three times per day before meals. 


CASTOR OIL FOR CHILDREN. 


Rub up tw T o drops of Oil of Cinnamon with 1 oz. ol Gly 
cerine and 1 oz, of Castor Oil. 

Children will take it and ask for more, 


for catarrh. 

Dry Sassafras Lark of Roots powdered and used as a 
snuff 3 tunes a day 

A SPRAINED ANKLE. 


Bathe frequently with cal l salt water. Keep itelevitei 
and cool. Use light diet and take salts. 











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A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. 


Confine the patient and mix one-third of his favorite 
drink with all he eats or drinks. Disgust will develope in 
the place of appetite. 


FOR CATARRH. 


Oil of Tar, 1 oz; Oil of Mustard, 1 dr; Oil Horse Rad¬ 
ish, 1 dr; Aqua Am., 10 drops; Alcohol, 4 oz. 

If you can not get the Oil of]Horse Radishjgrate l'oz r 
of the root and mix. 

Put into a large mouthed 1 oz. bottle, sponge or cotton 
to fill, and pour enough of the mixture to wet it, and cork 
tight. Inhale when needed. Good for cold in the head. 


TO DISINFECT A HOUSE. 


Formaldehyde. 

Spray or sprinkle the room and bedding well, and close 
the door for a few hours. 


A CHEAP, GOOD DISINFECTANT 


Tar, 1 lb; Sulphur, 1 lb, and Sulphite of Carbon, 2 oz. 

Put about 1 quart of ashes or sand in iron pot out of 
doors. Carefullv pour the Carbon in the ashes or sand, 
put in the Tar and Sulphur, place the pot on some stove or 
brick and fire the sulphur; cover slightly with old pan full 
of holes and get out quickly. Close all openings except 
the door before mixing and fil ing. When the door is closed 
leave closed 3 or 4 hours, then open up all openings for 
an hour 

before turnip ating, if clothing is spread on cbaiis away 
from the fire they will he more benefited Handle tb* 
Call on w th a re, as it is poison and explosive! 









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liquld sulphur. 

off the clear liquid and cork up foi u&e. 

ap ^y US to T 0 gwC°of q ”^ oV— the Ll. 
strength. _ _ 

Miscellaneous Department 


UNIVERSAL POLISH. 


Paris White, lib; Venetian Red, 1 oz; Oxalic Acid, 1 
oz, Mix with soft water and make into balls. Sells at 
25 cents a ball. 


TO KEEP CIDER SWEET. 


To 40 sral. add 1-2 oz. of Oil Mustard. This prevents 
fermentation. 


TO MAKE GRAPE WINE. 


Pick grapes off stems and bruise well; to each gallon of 
pummies add 1 gal. water, to each gal. add 2 lbs sugar. 
Let ferment two or three weeks and draw oft. Add 1-2 
pint of alcohol to the gal. if desired. 


A SUPERIOR GLUE. 


Isinglass, 1-2 lb; rain water, 1-2 pint. Boil as glue, 
add slowly, stirring well, 1 oz. Nitric Acid. 











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Bottle and it is ready for use. It adheres to almost any¬ 
thing. 25 cents per ounce. 


TO CLEARIFY WATER. 


Alum, 1 teaspoonful to 40 gallons. 


ENAMEL. (INSTANTANEOUS.) 


Emory Dust, 1-2 oz; Alum, 1 2 teaspoonful; Red Ani¬ 
line 1 gr; Gum Shellac, 5 oz; Common Rosin, 5 oz; Alco¬ 
hol, 1 qt; let stand 6 hours, then add 3 pts. Turpentine, 3 
pts. Boiled Linseed Oil, add 12 oz. Japan dryer, this makes 
1 gallon. Stop tight. 


SHOE BLACKING. (MASONS.) 


Oil Vitriol, 2 oz; Tanner’s Oil, 4 oz. Mix and let stand 
48 hours; add 5 oz. Molasses and Ivory Black 1 11. Mix 
and put in boxes. 

SOFT SOAP. 


Turpentine, 14 pint; Sal Soda, 1 1-2 lbs; Rosin Soap, 
1 lb; Ram Water, 20 gal; boill hour and it is ready to use. 


HYDROPHOBIA. 


Fr. remedy for mad dog bite. Tablespoonful fresh 
Chloiide of Lime; mix with 1-2 pt. of water. With this 
wash and bathe the wound frequently. Get a physician as 
quick as possible.' 











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CORN SALVE. 


Tar, 1 oz; Brown Sugar, 1 oz; Saltpetre, 1 oz. 

Warm these together and spread on sott cloth and apply 
to corn, bunion or wart. 


$5.00 WASHING FLUID. 


Crude Potash, 1 lb; Sal-moniae, 1-2 oz; Saltpetre, 1-4 
oz; Rain Water, 1 gal; 1 pt. of fluid to 8 gal. water; Soap 
1 lb. Put the clothes in this to soak over night, and rinse 
m morning, then boil in the manner directed in the laun¬ 
dry department. 


TO REMOVE GREASE SPOTS. 


Alcohol, Aqua Ammonia, Ether and Chloroform, of each 
1 oz; bottle and apply with rag. 


WATERPROOF LEATHER DRESSING. 


Linseed Oil, 1-2 pt: Beeswax, 1 oz; White Turpentine, 
1 oz; Burgundy Pitch, 1 oz; Lamp Black ground in oil, 1 
oz, Melt and mix. 


WATERPROOF BLACKING; 


Alcohol, 1-2 gal; Sulphuric Acid, 1-2 oz; Gum Shellac, 
1-2 lb; mix and let stand 24 hours; then 1-6 lb Ivory Black: 
let stand 24 hours; after well mixed and pour off‘the top. 
It sells 4 oz. for 1*1.00. 


CRYSTAL CEMENT. 

Dissolve 1 lb. White Glue in 2 qts. of hot water; then 












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dissolve 1 ounce Gum Shellac in 1 pt. Alcohol. Mix this 
with the glue, then stir in 2 oz. White Lead and 1 ounce 
iurpentine. Will stand heat, and is the best known. 


THE FISHERMAN’S TRICK. 


Miz pulverized Indian Hemp with dough and throw into 
the water; fish will float and vou can catch them and put 
them into fresh water and they wiL revive. 


RODIlfM BAIT FOR FISH. 


Put Oil of Rodium on bait. 


FLY PAPER. 


Melt Rosin and add Lard or Sweet Oil and Sugar and 
coat the paper. 

CHICKEN CHOLERA CURE. 


Alum, Rosin. Coperas, Lac Sulphur, Cayenne Pepper, 
each 2 oz; pulverize, mix. 

Three tablespoonsful with 1 qt. damp meal for 12 chick¬ 
ens. Use as preventative or care. 


CHICKEN MITES, 

Strong Tobacco Tea with Sulphur and Carbolic Acid. 
Sprinkle nests, roosts and coops; or use Beaumont Oil; 
this may be rubbed on hens also. 


JEWELER’S GOLD. (IMITATION.) 


3 parts Copper, 1 part Zinc and 1 part Block Tin; Melfc 
in a covered crucible with charcoal. 











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PINCH BACK GOLD. 


r oz. Copper, 1 cz Zinc fused together. 


SILVER PLATING. 


1 oz. Nitrate Silver 12 oz. Rain Water; dissolve and add 
2 oz. Cyanide Potash. Let stand clear; use with Paris 
White. 


CHINESE BLUING. 


Chinese Blue, 4 oz; Oxalic Acid, 1-3 oz; ^oft Water, 1 
qt; mix and let stand 12 hrs. 

Used by the best laundries. Cost 15 cents. 


BLACK INK. 


Extract Logwood,' 1 oz; Bicarbonate of Potash, 1-4 oz. 
Pulverize, mix and dissolve in a quart ot water. 


BLUE INK. 


Prussian Blue, dry, 6 oz; Oxalic Acid, 1 oz;mix with a 
little water, add Gum Arabic and 1 pint soft water. 


FLUID MATCH. 

1-2 oz. Muriatic Acid in one bottle and 1 oz. Saturated 
Solution Chlorate Potassium in another; handle with care. 
To make fire, put one splinter in one bottle and the other 
in the other and bring the wet ends together. 











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MOSQUITO LOTION. 


Gasoline, 1 qt; Moth Balls, 2 oz; Camphor Gum, 2 oz; 
Oil of Pennyroyal, 1 oz; Alconite Root, 1 oz; mix. Apply to 
face and hands and pillow; wet a sponge and keep in the 
room. For bed bugs add 1-2 oz. of Bi Chloride Mercury 
to above and apply to bed clothes and bedstead. 


LIQUID SULPHUR FOR ECZEMA. 


Acid Salvcilic, 2 dr; Sulphuric Ether or Colodion, 1 oz; 
mix and apply to the parts affected. 


BEDBUG EXTERMINATOR. 


Napthaline, 5 oz; Bichloride Mercury, 1 oz; Alconite 
Root, 1-2 oz. 

Mix and let stand 24 hours, and apply with atomizer or 
brush to the bedding and bedstead. 


INCOMBUSTIBLE PAPER. 


Immerse the paper in strong Alum water. 


TO PREVENT LAMP CHIMNEYS BREAKING. 


Boil the chimney in water. 


TO DESTROY MICE. 


Mix Tartar Emetic with some favorite foo 1 and place 
where they will get it. 













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GNATS. 


Camphor drives off gnats. 


CEMENT TO MEND IRON POTS AND PANS. 


l ake two parts of Sulphur and one part, by weight, of 
tine Black Lead; put the sulphur in an old iron pan, hold¬ 
ing it over the tire until it begins to melt, then add the 
lead; stir well until all is mixed and melted; then pour 
out on an iron plate or smooth stone. When cool, break 
into small pieces. A sufficient quantity of this compound 
being placed upon the crack of the iron pot to be mended 
can be soldered b} r hot iron in the same way a tinsmith 
solders his sheets. If there is a small hole in pot drive a 
copper rivet in it and then solder over it with this cement. 


CEMENT TO STICK METAL TOPS ON 
GLASS BOTTLES. 


The best cap cements consist of resin 5 oz; Beeswax, 1 
oz; Red Ochre or Venetian Red in powder, 1 oz. Dry the 
earth thoroughly on a stone at a temperature above 212 
degrees Fah. Melt the wax and resin together and stir in 
the powder by degrees. Stir until cold, lest the earthly 
matter settle to the bottom. 


PERFUMERY. 


Oil Rosemary, Oil Lemon, each 2 drachms; Bergamot 
and Lavender, each 1-2 drachm; Cinnamon, 5 drops; Oil 
Cloves and Oil Roses, of each 15 drops, Alcohol, 1 qt. 
Let stand 5 days. 

TO PRESERVE MILK. 

Teaspoonful Horse Radish in the yessel will keep milk 
sweet several days. 









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TO RESTORE MILK SLIGHTLY SOUR. 
Add’a small amount of Carbonate of Magnesia or Soda. 


TO KEEP HAMS WHEN DRY. 


Pack in dry barrel in coarse salt or oats. 


TO CASE HARDEN IRON. 


Pulverized Prusiate of Potash. Roll the iron when hot 
and*dip m water. 


SECRET OR SYMPATHETIC INK. 


A weak solution of Sulphate of Copper used as ink and 
exposed to^the fumes of Ammonia becomes blue. 


ANOTHER INK BLACK. 


A weak solution of Nitrate of Mercury becomes black 
by heat 


ANOTHER. 


Lemon juice becomes black by heat. 


ANOTHER. 


Persulphate of Iron becomes blue when washed in a so' 
lution of Prusiate of Potash. 















50* 

VIOLET INK. 


Violet Aniline, 12 oz; 5 oz Alcohol; mix in a glass 3: 
boars. One quart rain water; heat gently for a few hours. 

Mix 2 dr. Gum Arabic in 1*2 pint of water and add to 
the ink. To make a deeper color add mere aniline. 


YELLOW INK. 

Gam-bosne triturated in water, a little Ammonia added.. 


ANILINE INKS, DIFFERENT COLORS. 


Dissolve 1 oz. in 7 lbs rain water; dissolve 4 oz. Gum 
Arabic in 1 lb water; after it settles add to the ink, then, 
add 2 oz. Alcohol. 


TO KEEP WORMS FROM DRY FRUIT. 


Dry Sassafras bark, one handful to the bushel. Will 
keep for years. 


TO DESTROY FLIES AND INSECTS, 
Dalmation Powders; use atomizer. 


RAZOR STRAP PASTE. 


Impalpable powder of Emery 2 parts and Spermaceti 
Ointment 1 part. 

Mix and spread on strap. 


TO PREVENT NAILS FROM RUST. 


Heat red hot and put them m Linseed Oil. Prevents 
them from rust when in the ground or water. 















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HOW TO PACK EGGS FOR HATCHING. 

Pack with the large end down. 


TO PROTECT TREES. 


Soft Soap, 1 part; Slacked Lime, 5 parts; Flour, 2parts. 
Make a whitewash and apply with brush. 


TO MEND TINWARE. 


Fill a small bottle 2-3 full of Muriatic Acid, then add all 
the small pieces of zinc that will dissolye. Fill the bottle 
with water. 

Wet the tin with the acid and put a small piece of zinc 
on the hole. Heat with candle or soldering iron. 


LIQUID SULPHUR. 


To use as disinfectant. Sulphur, 1 lb; Bisulphide of 
Carbon, 1 qt. Mix and pour 5 ounces into a large dish and 
place in the room for a few hours with all openings closed. 
Ventilate before entering the room, and handle carefully; 
it is explosive. 


TO KILL ANTS. 


Liquid Sulphur above poured in the beds and set afire 
and covered up will do the work. Handle with care, poison. 


BEDBUGS, LICE OR FLEAS, 


Oil of Cedar, 1 port; Oil Pennyroyal, 1 part; Tincture 
Camphor, 2 parts; Gasoline, 4 or more parts. 











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Mix and apply to bedding or clothing with small brash r 
m use more gasoline and spray it when needed. 


WATERPROOF FOR BOOTS. 


Suet, 8 oz; Linseed Oil, 8 oz; Beeswax, 6 oz; Neatsfoot 
Oil, 11-2 oz; Lampblack, 1 oz: Litherage, 1-2 oz. 

Melt together and stir until cool. 


EGGS TO KEEP. 


Agricultural method te*ted. Rub the eggs with linseed 
®il and pack in sand with the small end down, and keep in 
sool place. 


EGGS TO KLCEP. 


One pint of unslacked lime iu 2 1-2 gallons water; add 
salt until an egg will float; put in fresh eggs and cover 
with something that will sink the eggs under the solution. 
Keep down w T ith a weight, use a stone jar when conven¬ 
ient; keep in cool place, 


TO KEEP EGGS 5 YEARS. 


Beeswax 1 part, oliye od 2 parts; melt together and coat 
$he eggs and pack in a cool place. 


TO CLEAN KNIVES. 


Rub with Irish potato and then with Spanish whiting. 


CEMENT FOR CHINAWARE. 


Thick solution of gum arable, 2 parts and plaster of 














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Paris 1 pint. Mix and spread with small brush on th« 
edges and press together and allow to dry for several days. 

TO CLEAISf TINWARE. 


Common soda applied with damp cloth and rubbed welL 
DRY SHAMPOO OR SEA FOAM. 


Sulphuric ether 1 oz, alcohol 1 oz, glycerine 1 oz, aqua, 
ammonia 1 dr, castile soap 2 oz, raiuwater 1 qt. Mix and 
bottle for use. 


TO MAKE SOAP WITHOUT LYE, GREASE OR HEAT. 


Dissolve 2 oz. pearl ash in about 2 oz, rain water and $ 
oz. castile soap in 8 oz. rain water and mix the pearl Wit¬ 
ter and suds well by shaking or stirring. 


GREEN INK. 


Verdigris, powdered, 1 oz, Vinegar 1 qt. Jn two days 
strain. 


GOLD INK. 


Mosiacs 2 oz, gum arabic 1 oz. by measure. Mix witk 
soft water. 


INVISIBLE INK. 

Sul. acid I part, water 20 parts. Use quill pen or gold!* 
and heat the paper. 











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SILVER INK. 


Pewter 1 part, quicksilver 2 parts. Mix. When dis¬ 
solved add gum arabic water. 


LUMINOUS INK. 


Phosphorous 1*2 dr, oil of cinnamon 1-2 oz; mix and 
cork tight and heat gently until mixed. It can’t be read 
only in the dark 


FOR THE HAIR. 


Alcohol 1 qt, castor oil 1 *2 pint, 6 drops tincture of can- 
tharides. Oil of bergamot or any other perfume wanted. 
Mix and use as wanted. 


AMALGAM FOR MIRRORS. 


Pure lead 1 oz, grain tin 1 o*. Melt in clean ladle and 
add 1 oz. bismuth and skim off the dross. Add 10 ounces 
quicksilver, stir and avoid the fumes. Apply with soft 
brush to the glass 


TO PUT AN EGG IN A BOTTLE. 


SoaK the egg in warm vinegar until the shell is soft and 
put in bottle. Fill the bottle with fresh water aad the egg 
will get its shape again. 


TO STOP BLEEDING AT NOSE. 


Bathe the head and neck with cold water and hold 













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'Straight up the a«*m on the side that is bleeding. If se¬ 
vere, snuti up some powdered coperas or alum or tanning 
•and allow the blood to clot in nose 


TO HOLD BLAZING FIRE IN HAND. 


Equal parts turpentine, crude mineral oil. lard, suet and 
-unsiacked lime. Mix well. Simmer over coals; it will 
form a liquid; pour some of it in hand and light with a 
match; no danger. 


TO TEST EGGS. 


Hold the egg in the closed hand between the eye and 
the sun or strong light. If the egg looks clear or trans¬ 
parent it is sound; if dark, not sound. 


TO CLEAN RUBBER TUBES AND COILS 
IN BEER COOLER. 

When the last beer is drawn* out of keg cut off gas from 
•keg. Open faucet and allow the gas to e^cipe from keg 
through rubber tunes and coils or beer coolers through 
■faucet into waste bucket every keg you use. You will 
save vour rubber tubes from damage by steam, and your 
trouble. You may clean once a month. 


10 TAKE OUT VARNISH SPOTS FROM CLOTH. 


Use chloroform or benzine, and at last recourse spirits 
of turpentine, followed after drying by benzine. 


HOW TO ETCH NAMES OR DESIGNS ON STEEL, 
Taiko copper sulphate, sulphate of alum and sodium ch!o» 









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ride, of each 2 drachms, and strong acetic acid 1 1-2 oz; 
mix together. Smear the metal with yellow soap and write 
with a quill pen without a split. 


FISH WILL BITE YOUR BAIT. 

Take juice of smallage or Invade, mix with any kind of 
tait. As long as there remain any fish you will be busy 
pulling them ©ut. 


TO POLISH PLATE GLASS AND REMOVE 
SLIGHT SCRATCHES. 

Rub surfaee gently, first with clean pad of fine cotton 
wool, and afterward with a similar pad covered over with 
cotton velvet which has been charged with fine rouge. The 
surface will acquire a polish of great brilliancy, quite free 
from any scratches. 


A PREPARATION THAT WILL PRESERVE 
NATURAL FLOWERS. 


Dip the flowers in melted paraffine, withdrawing them 
quickly. The liquid should only be just hot enough to 
maintain its fluidity, and the flowers should be dipped one 
at a time, held by the stalks and moved about tor an in¬ 
stant to get rid of air bubbles. Fresh cut specimens free 
from moisture make excellent specimens in this way. 


TO KEEP BOUQUET FRESH. 


Use soap suds in the vase. 


LIQUID CEMENT FOR CEMENTING LEATHER 
THAT WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY WATER. 


Gutta percha dissolved in carbon disul] hide until it is 










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ot thickness of treacle; the parts to be cemented first must 
be well thinned down: pour a small quantity of the cement 
on both ends, spreading well so as to fill the pores of the 
leather; warm the parts over a lire for about half a minute; 
do not let it burn, then apply them quickly together and 
hammer well. The bottle containing the cement should be 
corked tightly and kept in a cold place.; 


TO MAKE HAND FIRE GRENADES. 


Fill ordinary quart bottles with a saturated solution of 
common salt and place them where they will do the most 
good in case of need. They will be found nearly as ser¬ 
viceable as the expensive band grenades you buy. Should 
a fire break out, throw them with force sufficient to break 
them into the center of fire. The salt will form a coating 
on whatever object the water touches and make it nearly 
incombustible, and it will prove effectual in many cases 
where a fire is just starting, when delay in procuring 
water might be fatal. I > 


.0 MAKE CHEAP^CONCRETE. 

—j 

□ A kind of concrete made without cement is composed of 
8 parts of sand, gravel and pebbles, 1 part of burnt and 
powdered common earth, 1 part of pulverized clinkers and 
cinders, and 1 1-2 parts unslacked hydraulic lime. These 
materials are thoroughly incorporated while dry into a 
homogeneous mixture, which is then wetteo up and well 
beaten. The result of this is a hard and solid mass which 
aets almost immediately, becoming exceedingly strong af¬ 
ter a few days. It may be made still stronger by adding 
s small portion—say 1 part of cement. 


TO MAKE INSTANTANEOUS INK AND 
STAIN EXTRACTOR. 


Chloride of lime; 1 pound, pulveiized thoroughly, 4 qts. 







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of soffc water. When put together must be well shaken. 
It is required to stand 24 hours to dissolve the chloride of 
lime. Then strain thaough a cotton cloth, then add tea¬ 
spoonful of acetic acid to every ounce of the chloride 
of lime water. 


METAL POLISH FOR CLEANING AND POL¬ 
ISHING BRASS. 


Iron peroxide 15 parts, oxalic acid 1 part, powdered 
rott.enstone 20 parts, petrolatum 4 parts, palm oil 60 parts. 
See that the solids are well pulverized and sifted; add 
thoroughly incorporated oil and petrolatum. 


TO CLEANSE CARPETS ON THE FLOOR TO;MAKE 
THEM LOOK BRIGHT. 


Take a pailful of water and add three pints of ox gall; 
wash the caryets with this until lather is produced, then 
wash off with clean water. 


BED BUG POISOM. 


Set in die center of room a dish containing! oz. of brim¬ 
stone Light it and close room tightly, stooping the key 
holes of doors with paper to keep the fumes of the brim¬ 
stone in the room Let it remain 3 or 4 hours, then 
open the windows and air thoroughly. The brimstone 
will be found x> have also bleached the paints, or paper if 
it was a yellowish white Mixtures, such as equal parts 
of turpentine and kerosene oil, are u<ed, tilling up the 
cracks with hard soap. This is an excellent remedy. Ben 
zine and gasoline will kill bed bugs when applied with u 
fenther. 


HOW TO PRESERVE FENCE POSTS. 


Wood can be mad® to last longer than iron in the ground 
it prepared according to the following recipe: Take boiled 
linseed oil, s ir in pulverized coal to the consistency of 










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\paint, Pat a coat of this over the timber, and there is not 
a person that will live to see it rot. 


B. PIANO POLISH. 

Ether 2 oz, oil shellack 1 1*2 oz, boiled oil 2 oz, balsam 
dir 1 oz. 

Mktch won’t strike if added to the aboye. 

1-2 oz white wax. 

•Apply with a *rag and rub well. 


EGO TUMBLE ABOUT. 


Put a penny’s worth of quicksilver into a quill and seal 
it up with wax; then boil an egg hard, and as soon as you 
take it out ot the water put your quill through a small hole 
in the narrow end, put the egg on the table and it will 
tumble about 


TO MAKE EGG STAND UP ON THE LARGE END. 


Take a fresh egg and shake well, then set the egg on the 
'large end, holding it between the fingers on a flat surface. 
The egg will gradually settle an:, will stand in less than 
three minutes. 


THREE LIQUIDS IN A GL \SS. 


Put thick syrup, made of white sugar, in a tall glass, 
put the milk on syrup carefully, pour wine on milk, drink 
^either .liquid without disturbing others. (Use straw.) 


MAGI 1 FLASK. 


Put in seme volatile alkali in which has been dissolved 
copper filings which will produce blue; cork up the liquid 
and it will clear; uncork it and it will cclor. 











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Paint Department 

INCOMBUSTIBLE ROOF PAINT. 


Slacx lime m a barrel with boiling water, cover to keep 
m the steam. When slacked, pass 6 qts through a fine 
seive, to the lime add 1 qt of rock salt and 1 gallon of wa¬ 
ter, then boil and skim, add 1 -t pound alum, 1-10 pound 
coperas, add slowly 3-2C lb of potash, qt. ot fine sand or 
ashes. Color to suit. Is as durable as slate. 


WHITEWASH OUTSIDE. 


Unslacked lime, 1 bu; slack with cold water, add Span¬ 
ish whiting, 20 lbs; 17 lbs. salt, 12 lbs. sugar. Mix with 
boiling water and strain. 

To make yellow, use ocre instead of whiting and add 
chrome yellow. To make lead color add lamp black. To 
make blue, use indigo or ultamarine blue. To make green^ 
use chrome green; dry. Apply two coats. 


GLASS VARNISH OR PAINT. 


Fifteen parts fine, clean sand, 10 parts potash, 1 part 
charcoal. Fuse together; pulverize and expose to the air 
for five days; wash with cold water; boil in five parts water 
until dissolved. 


CHEAP VARNISH. 


Rosin, 1 part; boiled oil, 1 part. Melt and add 2 parts* 
u rpentine. 









61. 

IVORY VARNISH. 


One ounce isiglass. boiled gently in 1 part water until 
•dissolved. Add powdered flafce white, until white. 


IMITATION GROUND GLASS. 


Ninety gr. sandarach and 29 gr. mastic in 2 oz. washed 
ether. Add in small quantities benzine to make dry with 
grain. 


PAINTER'S PUTTY. 


Spanish waiting and linseed oil Mix well. To make 
■dr> hard, add varnish and a little white lead. 


SLATING PAINT. 


Emery powder, 82 pan.*; boiLd oil, 10 parts, lamp 
black, 8 parts. Mix and thin with equal parts tuips and 
Japan. _ 

GU1LD1NG SIZE. 


Ochre, 1 part; copal, 2 parts; linseed oil, 3 parts, turps, 
4 parts. 


IMPLEMENTS PAINT. 
Crude patroleum. 

HOUSE PAINTING. 


In mixing, use boiled linseed oil for outside mostly 
















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Use Japan dryer when needed. For inside less oil and! 
more turps 

To Mix Colors.—Break the lead with sufficient oil to< 
make a paste like; next thin your tinting color with tur¬ 
pentine or oil and strain into your lead, and mix well, and 
thin for use with oil. 

A List of Colors used to Produce the Following Shades— 
To make buff use white, ochre and red; chocolate, R. um¬ 
ber, red and black; dove, white, Vermillion, blue and 
black; ffesh, white, yellow, ochre, ver ; Fr. gray, white,, 
black. Pi. blue; gray, white, black; gold, stone ochre, red,, 
green bronze, chrome green,yellow and black; violet, white, 
blue, red; pea green, white, chrome green; lemon, white,, 
chrome yellow; olive, yellow, blue, black, white; orange,, 
red, yellow; pearl, white, black, blue; pink, white, ver.,. 
lake; purple, violet with more red to the white; rose,, 
madder,bake, white. 


FURNITURE POLISH. 


Linseed oil 8 oz, vinegar 4 ©z, oil of turpentine 1-2 oz,. 
mucilage 1-2 oz, rectified spirits 1-2 oz, muriatic acid 1 oz,. 
butter of antimony 1-4 oz. Mix. Apply with flannel rag. 


TO CHRYSTAL1ZE GLASS. 


A saturated solution of epsom salts or sal ammonia and 
stale beer applied with soft brush. It may be colored with 
aniline. 


PAINT FOR ROUGH WOOD. 

Melted pitch 6 lbs., linseed oil 1 lb., yellow ochre 1 lb. 


FIRF PROOF PAINT. 


Water 5 gal., potash 4 lbs., salt21b&., soda. 1 lb., dis- 









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*olve, stir in flour paste to the consistency of thin paint; 
stir in pure clay or ochre or whiting, and color to suit. 


WATER COLOR FOR BRICK. 


Water 10 gal., lime 10 lbs., sul. zinc 1 lb., color with 
dry Venetian red or ochre. 


CARRIAGE PAINTING. 


For a cheap job, clean off the dust and sandpaper off the 
dead varnish. Prime with white lead mixed with linseed 
oil and turps, equal parts, with a small amount of Japan 
dryer and enough of the color to tint the primer. When 
dry sandpaper lightly and apply color grouud in Japan, 
thinned with turp., and when dry, coat with good varnish 
in room where there is no dust; allow to dry, 

For a good job, take off the old paint and prime as above 
and put on and rub down two or three coats of filler made 
of dry color mixed with turp; finish as above. 


MAHOGANY FURNITURE VARNISH. 


Best proof alcohol 1 qt, add all the gum shellac it will 
cut, and add 2 oz Venice turpentine and 1 grain red ana - 
line; bottle; it will keep for years. 


BLACK TAR PAINT. WILL NOT BURN. 


1 brl. of coal tar, 3 lbs. white lime, 5;lgal. gasoline and 
mix. 

To turn the bl ack paint to white, add to the above recipe 
10 lba. oxalic acid, 5 lbs. borax. Dissolve borax in hot 
watei, add 5 lbs, white lime. 










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Mix well and let stand 12 hours, and pour off the liquid 
that will form on top and put it in bottles, which will be a 
fine fire extinguisher. 


Fattier Depat tment 


SPAVIN AND RINGBONE. 


Cantharides 2 oz, turpentine 2 oz, corrosive sublimate2 
dr, tincture of iodine 1 oz. Mix well in one lb of lard. 
Cut off the hair and apply the ointment. In two days wash 
and apply again and continue until cured. 


POLL EVIL. 


Carbolic acid 2 oz., glycerine 2 oz.; mix; inject into the 
pipes with syringe two or three applications. 


SWEENEY. 

With a sharp pointed knife puncture the skin several 
times over the shrunken part, and pull up the skin and 
rub until you fill with air. 


ANOTHER REMEDY FOR SWEENEY. 


Sweenev in the first stage. Wet a flannel cloth with tur¬ 
pentine folded two double and iron with hot smoothing iron. 


SCRATCHES. 


Linseed oil 4 oz., borax 2 oz., sugar of lead 1 oz., mix- 
Wash with soap, and apply twice a day. 












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HEAVE REMEDY. 


Give the horse a tablespoonful of lobelia once a day foi 
a week, then twice a week until cured. 


SPANISH FEVER IN CATTLE. 


Fenugreek, nit. potas, elecampane, sulphate iron, pow¬ 
dered gentian, gum acasia, of each 2 oz. Mix thoroughly. 
Give 12 oz every four hours if there be fever. Once a 
week as a preventative. 

If the animal has fever, £Tve tincture of aconite 30 drops 
every 4 hours, alternated with the above powders till four 
doses of each have been given per day. This remedy has 
a well earned reputation in Texas 


AR. HORSE LINIMENT. 


Alcohol 1 qt, oil hemlock, tincture arnica, oil spike, 
glycerine, of each of 2 oz; mix. Use for cuts, bruises, 
scalds and like ailments. Apply with flannel wrapping. 


TO JUDGE A HORSE’S AGE. 


The colt sheds the two center teeth above and below at 
2 years old, the next four at 3, and the corner teeth at 4; 
at 5 his teeth have grown up even on outside, bu> not on 
the inside; at 6 the corner teeth are even the inside with 
the out, and the two center teeth below are glazed oyer the 
dark spot m the center of the teeth; at 7 the next two are 
smooth; at 8 all are smooth below; at 9 the two center 
teeth above are glazed; at 10 the next two; at 11 all are 
smooth aboye. This is nature's rule with but few excep¬ 
tions 


TO BREAK AND TRAIN HORSES. 


To do this the best way known we must have a good 











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outfit for the business, which consists of a strong cirsinglle^ 
a strong crupper made so that there will) be a loop for the* 
cirsingle to pass through. It must be adjustable to differ 
ent horses; there must be a strong ring in the end near 
where it connects with the cirsingle about where the back 
band works. We also need a strong leather strap made 
with a ring and buckle with which we strap up one fore 
foot; this strap does not connect with the cirsingle. 

We need a rope about 40 feet long and light buggy 
whip. 

If we can we should always get the horse into a stall* 
where we can halter him without choking down, but if not 
conyenient we must use another rope to catch him and 
choke down, and while down we put our breaking 
rope around the neck and pass tne rope from left to right 
through his mouth and back through the collar. Then take 
off the oth^r rope and carry the horse to a smooth place to* 
break him. We then catch his left foot with a rope and 
get it over his back and once around his body; tighten and 
draw up this foot and he will fall down or lie down. 

Next strap up the left foot and with the rope which is 
around his body, draw your cirsingle under him and put on 
the crupper and pass the cirsingle through the loop of 
crupper and buckle tight. 

Next take the rope out of the collar, but let it remain in? 
his mouth and pass the rope through the ring on his back r 
tighten the rope lightly and let the horse up. Pull stead¬ 
ily on the rope and you pull his head around to his right 
side, when he loses his balance he will try to reach the* 
ground with his left knee he will fall. In the same way 
lay him down as fast as he gets up until he will not rise* 
when you slack the rope to let him up, then tap him oni 
the nose with the whip and make him get up. Continue 
this until he is subdued. Then go up at his back while 
down and put your hands on him; if he jumps up, lay him 
down and try him again, rub him kiudly over the head r 
neck and back and he will become used to the touch and 
like it. Make him get up and try to approach him on the 
left side; if he stands, put your hands on him kindly and: 
firmly and speak kindly to him, but if he will not let you 
touch him he is not broke. Lay him down a few more* 


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times and try it again until he will stand and allow you to 
rub him all over, ttien vou may let his foot down and let 
his leg rest and rub it If he seems shy, strap it up again 
and if he refuses t° submit to your kindness lay him down 
a few times more and let him up, and when he seems to be 
srentie and submissive while his foot is yet up and when he 
has submit.ed to be rubbed all over you may hold ynur 
rope in your hand and jump on him on your breast and 
down again and let his foot down r J he horse when sub¬ 
dued becomes passive. A 1 this time you have kept your 
rope in his mouth and through the ring on his back, of 
course, slackening when he was quiet. 

Next teach him to lead. To do this take the rope out of 
the ring and pass it, through the collar as at first, forming 
a half hitch on his under jaw. Now stand on the left side 
a step or two from him and tell him to come, at the same 
time pull him to you. Step back again and tell him to 
come; give him a sharp pull and when vou puil him to you 
which you can do, caress him and loosen the rope in his 
mouth. Continue this until he learns to come without 
pulling, then stand on his right side and train him to come 
that way, by degrees, get a little more in front until he 
will come to 3 ou without pulling, getting a little further 
away each time until he will come the full length of the 
rope. You may then lay your rope upon his back aqd 
step back and give him the word you have been using all 
the time and he wil- come. 

If he gets careless and won’t mind give him a sharp 
pull with the rope, that will make him come next time 
you speak. Don’t fail to loosen the rope each time he 
comes to you; he will come to get it eased as it will 
hurt his mouth. 

After yon learn him to lead put your saddle and bridle 
on him; if he seems to be skittish or contrary lay him 
down a few time® more, then he will submit willingly to 
what you choose to do. When you see he is gentle get 
on him and have some ore to ride a gentle horse and go 
with you until you trrin him to the bridle. Use a little 
switch to tap him on the side of the neck to turn him, 
at the same time use your reins gently. 

If you wish to work him, harness with a gentle horse 
and learn him to go before you hitch to a plow or wagon, 


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i&ea load lightly until he learns to pull. 1 have broken 
Brasses in one day so gentle that I could £0 into the lot 
fmorninof and tell them to come to me and I could 
te&Sle and saddle them with ease, but sometimes you will 
hm-eto put your, rig on them and give them another los* 
ssasar; if they seem wild y®u will have to do it, it will not 
feUse long the second day to make them give up. Any old 
applied horse can be broken by this method. With the 
jt^tyou can lay him down as fsst as he gets up, he sees 
tbact you are his master and that when he does right you 
&ass&fc him kindly. It will take about two hours to tame a 
fcawsee and learn him to follow you. 

With care you can train him to the bridle in one day; 
aJjwaystell ho or whoa when you want him to stop. You 
ifSLl bridle and saddle with ease the first time. 


iXO MAKE A BALKY HORSE GO. 


£F orft hitch to a heavy load at first. If the horse don't 
take him loose and tie his bridle to his tail, pull his 
Igjid*to one side so he can not go ahead, and turn him 
itaserund whip him; he will turn round, get dizzy and fall; 
sz&Etfie&As bridle from his tail and hitch him to the wagon 
»e$*iiekus you c»n and let him go. If he don’t go repeat 
os© until he does go. 

ft seldom takes more than two ginnings to do; always 
~jgkw& the harness on him when you whip him so you can 
as quieklv as possible. 


TO BREAK A HORSE FROM BREAKING HIS 
HALTER. 


Fast a strong rope under his tail, tie it together on hi» 
ifegjk, bring one end down on each side and between his 
fin®B&$egs, pass throuGn the halter, tie a knot so that it 
leaps "the rope in place so that it can pass forward but not 
Ikci and hiteh by this rope. 


HOG CHOLERA. 

Mix with bran or meal as a slop; to 10 : bran, 2 lbs. 







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of pine tar, 3 oz of sulphur, 3 oz. soda, 3 oz. of salt* $ <©sl 
pulverized coperas, 1 lb. soft soap, and give to the hogSRis? 
not too sick to eat. 

If the hog will not eat, drench it with the^ slop wit!? a 
tablespoonful of laudanum, turpentine and camphor* naiaa# 
ot equal parts, and put some tar on the hog’s tongue. 
Burn all dead ones. Put tar on corn and feed to the 
with salt and soda and sulphur as a preventative. 


FOR ULCERATED SURFACES, AN EXTERNAL AS¬ 
TRINGENT POWDER. 


White vitrol, 4 oz, oxide of zinc, 1 oz; mix. 


OINTMENT FOR SORE HEELS. 


Acetate of lead, 1 dr, lard, i oz; mix. 


FOR SPLINTS, RING-BONE, SPAVINS, ETC-—A 
STRONG SWEATING BLISTER. 


Bimodide of mercury 1 1-2 drs, lard'l ozr to be 
rubbed into the legs after cutting the hair short,.a®# Al¬ 
lowed bv the daily use of arnica in the shape of & wasfe*, 
which is to b 1 painted on with a brush,..as followsr 3 bbk» 
of arnica 1 oz, water 13 to 14 oz; mix. 


DIAPHORETIC DRANCH. 


Solution of acetate of ammonia 3 to 4 oz, laudanum 1 cmg^ 
mix and give ut night.. 









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MEDICINE FOR HORSES—LAXATIVE DRENCH. 


Castor oil 3 to 6 oz, barbadoes aloes 3 to 5 drs, carbon¬ 
ate soda 2 drs, mint water 8 oz* mix: by dissolving the 
aloes in the mint water by aid of heat, then adding the 
other ingredients. 


FOR BLIND STAGGERS. 


Barbadoes aloes 4 to 6 drs, common salt 6 oz, flour 
water 2 pints; mix. 


FOR BLOODY URINE. 


Powdered caeehu 1-2 oz, alum 1-2 oz, casearilla bark in 
powder 1 to 2 drs, licorice powder and treacle enough to 
form a ball, to be giyen Uvice a day. 


TO KILL TICKS FLEAS OR LICE. 


On stock or poultry, put in salt or food sulphur and rub 
with Beaumont crude oil. 

Beaumont oil will keep off flics, mosquitoes and gnats if 
rubbed on the hair of the animz 1. 


FOR WIRE CUTS. 


Crude Beaumont oil 8 oz, pine tar 2 oz; mix and and ap¬ 
ply with brush, or. where convenient, wet cotton with it 
and bind with cloth. 

BEAUMONT OIL. 


A few drops of the oil on sugar relieves cold in throat 
or lungs. It may be rubbed on, also. 











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FOR SCOURS IN HORSES. 


'Whiskey., 1-2 pint, laudanum 1-2 oz, turpentine 1-2 oz, 
^oda 1-2 oz, water 1 2 pint; divide into two doses and give 
*it one hour a part. Tie a cord around the tail near the 
body and allow it to remain during the hour between 
doses. 


FOR FOUNDER. 


If the horse has been oyer fed and drove, and is sore 
•and stiff, give about a half pint of pure linseed oil and 
wrap straw, old sacks or blankets around his ieps and keep 
wet with water wlvch has had some salt, soda and turpen¬ 
tine added to it while heating. Use as hot as the hand 
can bear; also cover the horse with a blanket and sweat 
him well. When you take off his wraps, bathe his limbs 
with some good liniment to be found in this book. Give 
him moderate exercise; don’t allow the animal to be ex¬ 
posed to bad weather until well. 


HORSE COLIC. 


It from over fed, give linseed oil 1 pint, or castor oil 4 
and drench with water 1 pint, tupentine 1 oz, soda 2 
oz, tincture of ginger 1-2 oz, laudanum 1 4 oz. Give at 
-one dose. 

If the bowels do not move in two hours repeat the oil 
and if the pain continues repeat the drench If the ani¬ 
mal is dangerouslv swollen, it may have to be tapped to 
allow the gas to escape. 


TO KILL TICKS ON STOCK. 


(Give sulphur with salt and rub with Beaumont oil. 
Beaumont oii will keen off fl ; es, mosquitoes a d ft rats if 
ambbed oiuthe hair of the animal. 









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LAW ,; 


GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. 


Government, a subject deeply interwoven with the hap- 
pii.(•!>«* and comforts of the human race, has not always 
be< n exercised or organized by wisdom. 

For most part, in the past, government has been found¬ 
ed m on usurped power by conquest or some accidental as- 
cenci iicy 

The rule has been the will of the leader on one side and 
abject submission on the other 

As long as the people bore this oppression. 

This form of government is known as Monarchical. A 
limited Monarch is an improvement in government where 
the power of the Monarch is limited by a constitution and 
the people elect representatives from among the citizens. 

A higher order of governmentis the representative form 
usually denominated Democratic, ?ueh as the U. S.• Gov¬ 
ernment has. 

Law. in it' general sense, signifies a rule of social con¬ 
duct which superior authority has dictated and which the 
separate members of the c« mmunity are bound to obey. 

Business is regulated by forms of law% whether statute 
or commcn. 

Statute is an act of the Legislature, whether State or 
National. It is the written law of the land. 

Statutes are to be construed, not according to the mere 
letter, but intent and object, with which they were made. 

The common law is grounded on the general customs of 
England, and includes the law of nature, the law of God,, 
the principles and maxims of the law and the decisions of 
superior courts. 


INFANTS IN THE LAW. 


A I 1 persons are infants in law until 21 years of age, ex¬ 
cept in some States; women at 18 years. 

People of age can generally bind themselves by contract 






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except being under guardianship, insanity, intoxication., 
aliency in time of war, and married women 

Minors cannot bind themselyes in contract in law. 

The learned Judge Story has said that human life is di¬ 
vided into four periods, each of which is a multiple of 
seven. 

Natural infancy ends at seven; puberty begins at four¬ 
teen, legal infancy ends at twenty-one, and the allotted life 
of man is three score years and ten, or seven tens. 

Infants in law after seven years are subject to criminal 

law. 

The objects of infant law is to protect it from fraud, but 
not to shield it from the penalty for crime. 

FRAUD. 


Fraud includes all deceitful practices in endeavoring to 
defraud another of his right by any means out of the com¬ 
mon rules of business. 

A fraudulent conyeyance of property to beat creditors 
is to the creditors void in law. 

Where a person is paity to a fraud all that follows by 
reason of that fraud shall be said to be done ty him. 

To keep in bargains material facts concealed for the 
purpose of keeping tha person in ignorance, whereby to 
gain profit is a gross fraud and contracts will be void. 

ignorance of the law excuses no one. It is a fraud to 
conceal a fraud. The law compels no one to do impos 
sibilities. 

An agreement without consideration is void. Signatures* 
made with a lead pencil aie good in law. 

A receipt for money paid is not legally conclusive, 

The acts of one parther binds all the others. 

Contracts made on Sunday are void. 

A contract made with a minor is void. 



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A contract made with a lunatic is void. 

Principals are responsible for the acts of their agents. 

Agents are responsible to their principals for errors. 

Each individual m a partnership is reiponsible for the 
whole amount of the debts of the firm. 

A note ’ven by a minor is void. 

Notes bear interest onlv when so stated. 

It is legally necessary to sav on a note “tor value re¬ 
ceived,” 

Notes diawn on Sunday are void. 

A note obtained bv fraud or compulsion, or from a per¬ 
son in a state of intoxication, can not be collected. 

If a note be lost or stolen it does not relieve maker; he 
must pay it. 

An indorser of a note is exempt from liability if not 
served with notice of its dishonor within twenty four 
hours of its non payment. 


LAW OP COPYRIGHTS. 


Sec riON 4964. 


Every person who after the recording of the title of any 
book as provided by this chapter shall, within the term 
limited and without the consent of the proprietor of the 
copyright first obtained in writing, signed in presence of 
two or more witnesses, print, publish or import or know¬ 
ing the same to be so printed, published or imported, shall 
sell oi expose ta sale any copy of such book shall forfeit 
every copy thereof to such proprietor, and shall also for¬ 
feit and pay such damages as may be recovered m n civil 
action by such proprietor in any court of competent ju¬ 
risdiction. 





75 

Civil Government U, S, 


1. Legislative—Law Making : 

House ef Representatives. 
Senate. 

2. Executive—Law Enforcing: 

President, assisted by his 
Cabinet. 

: 3. Judicial— Law Interpreting : 

Supreme Court, 

Circuit Court Appeals, 
Circuit < our*. 

District Court. 


LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. 


1. Composed of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate, together known as Congress, in which legislative 
power resides. 

2. The regular session of Congress meets the 1st Mon • 
day of each December, but the President can call special 
• meetings. 

• 3. Laws have to receive a majority vote of each hoise 
c aud the President’s approval. 

4. The President’s veto may be overcome by two-thirds 
vvote of each house. 

5. Should thejPresident hold a biil ten days 'exclusive 
<of Sundays) without vetoing it it becomes a law; except 
'last ten days prior to adjournment of Congress. 

POWER OF CONGRESS. 


a. To raise money for national purposes. 







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b. To regulate interstate andfereign commerce; 

c. To establish inferior couits. 

d. To coin money and establish weights and measures,* 

e. To provide penalties for counterfeiting. 

f To establish and regulate postal system. 

g. To declare war and grant letters of marque and re¬ 
prisal; arrange for organizing and bringing the militia 
into action, and make such rules as may be deemed expe¬ 
dient to govern the army and navy. 

h. Exclusive control over the Territories and the Dist¬ 
rict of Columbia. 

i. To admit new states. 

j. To anact laws governing naturalization and bank-; 
ruptcy. 


2 . 

CHECKS TO CONGRESSIONAL POWERS. 


a There can be no suspense to Writ of Habeas Corpus- 
except in times of war. 

b. Ex post facto laws or bills of attainder cannot be 
passed. 

c. No duties can be levied on exports. 

d Direct taxes must be proportioned on basis of la.esi 
census. 


3 . 

CHECKS ON THE POWERS OF THE STATES. 

a. No state can make treaties with other states or for¬ 
eign powers. 






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b. Cannot declare war or grant letters of marque and 
^reprisal. 

c. Cannot coin money or declare anything but gold and 
• silver coin a legal tender. 


4 . 

-STATES ARE PROHIBITED (UNLESS BY CONSENT 
OF CONGRESS. 

a. To levy duties on imports or exports except when 
necessary to execute inspection laws. 

b. To keep troops or ships of war in times of peace. 

c. To enter into any agreement with other states or 
foreign powers. 

d. To engage in war, unless invaded, or in imminent 
danger 

5. 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 


a. Composed of 356 members elected for 2 years. 

b. Qualifications—A Representative must be 25 years 
< of age, seven years a citizen of the U. S., and an inhab¬ 
itant of the state from which chosen. 

c. Salary, $5,000 per annum, mileage, and ($125) sta- 

- tionery. 

d. Vacancies filled by special election. 

«. Elects its speaker and other officers 
f. Prosecutes articles of impeachment. 
or. Originates revenue bills. 

‘ h. Representatives elect U. S. President when the 

- electors fail to do so. 

6 . 

1. Senators’ salary, $5,000 and $10C per month to em- 
: ploy private secretary, and stationery ($125). 






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2. Each State Legislature elects two senators, term of 
office 6 years; one third of the senate retire every two 
years. 

3. A senator must be not less than 35 years of age, a 
citizen of the U. S. nine years, and a citizen of the state 
he represents. 

4. Vacancies are filled by election if the legislature is 
in session; otherwise by the governor. 

5. Vice-President of U. S. presides over the senate. 

6. Senate has equal legislatiye power with the House 
of Representatives, except in originating revenue bills. 

7. Approves or rejects appointments made by the pres¬ 
ident of the United States. 

8. Ratifies ti eaties with foreign nations by 2-3 vote. 

9. Senate acts as a judicial body in trial of impeach¬ 
ment. Penalties: Removement from office or disfran¬ 
chisement, or both. 

10. Elect the vice-president when the electors fail to 
elect. 


EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 


1. Vested in the President of U. S. 

2. Term, four years. Salary $50,000 per year. 

3. Qualifications. He must be a native born citizen of 
the U. S., thirty-five years old; 14 years a resident of U. S, 

4. Elected by electors chosen by the voters of each 
state. 

5. Number of electors corresponds with the numbers 
from each state .in both houses of congress. 

6. It takes a majority vote of all the electors to elect 
the president. 

7. If no candidate receive* a majority the represent¬ 
atives elect. 

8. In voting for president each state casts but one vote. 




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DUTIES AND POWERS OF PRESIDENT. 


1. He is commandec in-chiof of the army and navv, and 
of the militia when called into action. 

2. May grant reprieves and pardons. 

3. Has power to make treaties with consent of the 
senate. 

4. The President chooses, with consent of senate, a cab¬ 
inet of eight members, who are his advisers in the respect¬ 
ive executive departments 

5. He appoints embassadors, public ministers, consuls,, 
judges of the supreme court, and other officers, with the 
consent of the senate. 

6. Advises congress to consider such public measures 
as he may deem expedient. 

7. Convenes congress on extraordinary occasions. 

8. Approves or vetoes such bills as mav come before him. 

9. Receives embassadors from foreign countries. 

10. Sees that the laws are faithfully executed. 

11, Ma^ adjourn congress on disagreement between the 
houses. 


VICE PRESIDENT. 


1. Qualifications are same as the President. Salary, 

$ 8 , 000 . 

2. Is elected in the same manner as the president, ex¬ 
cept when electors fail to elect he is elected by the senate. 

3. He is president of the senate. 

4. Is acting president of U. S. in case of death or dis¬ 
ability of the president.__ 

CABINET OFFICERS, EIGHT. 


1. In case of the death of both president and vice-pres¬ 
ident the cabinet officers suceed. 







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2. Their duties and the order of their succession are as 
follows : 

3 . Secretary ot State, who has charge of domestic and 
foreign relations. 

4. Secretary of Treasury, superintends U. S. treasury. 

5. Secretary of War, controls military affairs. 

6. Attorne} r -General, the presidents legal adviser. 

7. Postmaster-General, superintends the postal service, 

8. Secretary ot Navy, the head of nayal affairs. 

9. Secretary of Interior, has charge of matters pertain¬ 
ing to citizens of the U, S, public lands, education, 
Indian affairs, etc. 

10. Secretary of Agriculture, a cabinet position formed 
for the promotion of agriculture, forestry, etc. 

11. Salary of cabinet officers, $8,000. 


Judicial Department 


It is Vested in Supreme Court and Infcrioi Courts, 


THE SUPREME COURT. 


1. Is composed of nine members: The Chief Justice 
(salary $10,500) and eight assoicates (salary $10,000each,) 

2. Appointed by the president with the advice and 
consent ©f the senate. 

3 . Hold office during good behavior. 

4. Removable only by impeachment. 

5. They retire at 70 years of age and ten years service 
on full pay. 

6. The Chief Justice presides over the senate in case of 
impeachment of the president of the U. S. 






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JURISDICTION OF SUPREME COURT. 


1. In cases affectinor representatives of foreign coun¬ 
tries. 

2. In all cases arising under the U. S. Constitution, its 
laws and treaties. 

3. Between two or more states, or a state and citizen 
of another state. 

4. Between a state or the citizens of a state and foreign 
states, citizens or subjects. 

5. All cases originating in interior courts may he ap¬ 
pealed to the Supreme Court. 


CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. 


Created March 3, 1871, in order to reheye the Supreme 
Court of the U. S. of part of its duties. Each Circuit 
Court of Appeals consists of three judges, to wit: the Chief 
Justice or Advocate, Justice of Supreme Court assigned to 
the Circuit. 

The present circuit judge and the additional circuit judge 
provided for by this act. 

Two judges constitute a quorum. In the absence of one 
or more of the judges above, the number is to be made 
good from the district judges within the circuit. Salary 
of judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals, $6,000 each. 

Term of office practically for life. 

Terms of Circuit Courts of Appeals are to be held an¬ 
nually in the several judicial circuits at the follow ing 
places: 

First Circuit, Bostoh; second, New York City; third, 
Philadelphia; fourth, Richmond; fifth, New Orleans; fc $ixth 
Cincinnati; seventh, Chicago; eighth, St. Louis; ninth, 





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San Francisco; and in such other places in each circuit as 
the court may from time to time designate. 


U. S. CIRCUIT COURT. 


1. Nine circuits and as many judges; (salary, $6,000 
each.) 

2' One local circuit judge to each circuit, and one judge 
of the supreme court is required to attend one term of the 
circuit court in eyery two years. 

3. Trials must be by jury, and must not be outside the 
state when the crime was committed. 

4. It has jurisdiction in case of admiralty and mara- 
time controversies. 

5. Those to which the U. S. will be a party.. 

6. Between citizens of different states. 


U. S. DISTRICT COURT. 


1. One or more districts to each state, with correspond¬ 
ing number of judges; (salary, $3,500 to $5,000.) 

2. Same regulations as U. S. circuit courts govering 
appeals, jurisdiction, etc. 


POLITICAL ECONOMY. 


1. Political Economy is the science of wealth.—Way- 
land. 

2. Wealth includes all the products of labor, having an 
interchangable value. 

3. Capital is that part of man’s stock which he expect* 
to afford him a revenue.—Dr, Adam Smith. 








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4. Labor includes all human effort.—George. 

5. Land embraces all natural materials, forces and 
opportunities.—George. 

6. Interest is the increase accruing from the use ot cap¬ 
ital. 


7. Wages is the price of labor.—Wayland. 

8 Rent is the income accruing from the ownership 

of land. 

9. Taxes is that portion of capital demanded by a com¬ 
munity for the public good 

10. Money is the standard of values and the medium of 
exchange, made a legal tende * by law. 

11. Production is the creation of value by the applica¬ 
tion ot labor. 


CANONS OF TAXATION. 


1. That it bear as lightly as possible upon the produc¬ 
ing classes and upon capital applied to productiye pur¬ 
poses. 

2. That it be easily and cheaply collected so as to take 
from the people as little as possible, in addition to what it 
yields the government.—George. 

3. That it be certain—so that it gives the least possi 
ble chance for bribery or extortion. 

4. That it bear equally—so that each individual be 
taxed proportionately to the benefit receiyed. 

5. That the necessaries of life be exempt, such as the 
poor man’s household furniture, his cow and pig. 


FUNCTIONS OF CAPITAL. 


1. Capital secures for labor greater productive power 






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by supplying tools. Thus, a man with a reaper can cut 
infinitely more grain than he could pluck with bis hand. 

2. Capital - secures further efficiency for labor by in¬ 
creasing the number of subdivisions, thereby making each 
laborer a thorough expert in his particular vocation. 

3. Capital facilitates exchange by providing means of 
transit for produce from wheie it is produced to where it 
is exchanged for other products with the least expense. 

4. Capital assists labor m controlling toe reproductive 
ioices of nature, as sowing grain, etc. 


FUNDIMENTAL PRINCIPLES 


1. Land, labor and capital are the three factors of pro 
duction. 

2. No wealth can be produced without labor, 

3. No wealth can be produced without ’and. 

4. A limited amount of wealth can be produced with- 
©ut capital. 

fi. The interests of capital and labor are identical. 

6. The demand tor consumption determines ths direc¬ 
tion in which labor will be expended in production.— 
George. 

7. Men often grow rich without labor; such as gamb¬ 
lers, board of trade speculators and land owners, who of¬ 
ten find themselves rich bv rapid advances in prices of 
produce and land values; but the increased riches of such 
men add nothing to the general wealth of the community, 
lor what they gain, others lose.) 

8. All increase in land values (improvements made by 
labor excepted) is known by political economists as un 
earned increment, because this value never represents the 
labor of the bwner nor his employes. 

9. Every persen has an inherited right to secure wealth 




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in whatever manner he or she sees fit, provided that in so 
doing, he or she infringes n t on the equal rights of any 
other person. 

10. Civilized beings voluntarily surrender to the com¬ 
munity certain of their rights that thereby thev may se¬ 
cure greater benefits in other directions. 

11. All legislation in favor of special interests is in its 
very nature pernicious, and tends to national impover¬ 
ishment. 

12. The rent of land is determined by the excess of its 
produce ovei that which the same application can secure 
from the least productive land in use. (This is called ‘‘Ri¬ 
cardo’s Law of Rent.’) 

This should be known by every citizen who casts a vote. 


TABLE OF GROSS WEIGHT, SUCH AS BUSHELS, 
BARRELS. KEGS, SACKS, DOZENS, ETC* 


Ale and Beer, 820 pounds.to barrel; 170 pounds to half 
barrel; 100 pounds to quarter barrel. 

Apples, dried, 24 pounds to bushel; green, 56; greem, 
150 pounds to barrel. 

Barley, 48 pounds to bushel. 

Beans, white, 60 pounds to bushel; .castor, 46 pounds t® 

bushel. 

Beef, 820 pounds to barrel. 

Bran, 20 pounds to the bushel. 

Brooms. 40 pounds to the dozen. . 

Buckwheat, 48 pounds to bushel. 

Cider, 820 pounds to barrel. 

Charcoal, 22 pounds to bushel. 

Clover, 60 pounds to bushel. 

Corn, shelled, 56 pounds to bushel; in ear, 70 pounds to 



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bushel; corn meal, 48 pouuds to bushel; corn meal, 220 
pounds to barrel. 

Figs, 200 pounds to barrel. 

Fish, 300 pounds to barrel. 

Flax Seed, 66 pound* 10 bushel. 

Flour, 206 pounds to barrel. 

Hemp Seed, 44 pounds to bushel. 

High Wines. 350 pounds to barrel. 

Hungarian Grass Seed, 45 pounds to bushel. 

Lime, 200 pounds to barrel. 

Malt, 38 pounds to barrel. 

Millet, 45 pounds to barrel. 

Nails, 108 pounds to keg. 

Oats, 32 pounds to bushel. 

Oil, 400 pouuds to barrel, 

Onions, 67 pounds to bushel. 

Peaches, dried. 33 pounds to bushel. 

Pork, 3*20 pound* to barrel. 

Potatoes, lri«h, 150 pounds to barrel; 60 pounds tc the 
b ishe). 

Potatoes, Sweet. 55 pounds to bushel, 
liye, 56 pounds to bushel. 

Salt, tine, 56 pounds to bushel; 300 pounds to barrel. 
Salt, coarse, 35<> pounds to barrel. 

Salt in sacks. 200 pounds to barrel. 

Timothy Seed, 45 pounds to bushel. 

Turnips, 56 pounds to bushel. 

Vinegar, 350 pounds to barrel. 

Wheat, 60 pounds to bushel. 

Whiskey, 350 pounds to barrel. 

One Ton Weight is 2000 pounds. 


A DEMAND NOTE. 


$100.00. Austin, Tax as, May 25, 1903. 

On demand I promise to j ay John S. 


or 






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order One Hundred Dollars, value received, with interest 
•at 6 per cent. 

Taomas-. 


JOINT AND SEVERAL NOTE, 


<1.00, Taylor, Texas, May 25,1903. 

Six months after date; we, or either of us, prom¬ 
ise to pay H. B. ov order, One Dollar, value received, 
without interest, 

A- A-. 

B- B-. 


NOTE NOT NEGOTIABLE. 


$2,00. Taylor, Texas, May 5,1903 

Thirty days after date I promise to pay C. C. Two 
Dollars, Payable at my office. Value received. 

A- B-. 


A RECEIPT ON ACCOUNT. 


$10.00. Taylor, Texas, May 1, 1903 

Received of T. 15. On# Dollar to apply on ac¬ 
count. M- M-. 


RECEIPT IN FULL. 


$1.00. Austin, Texas, May 8,1903. 

Received of M. M. One Dollar in full of all de¬ 
mands to date. 


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MASTER PIECES OF ELOQUENCE, 


The following masterpieces of elegiac eloquence are un¬ 
surpassed repertory of the English classics for lofty and 
noble sentiment, exquisite pathos, vivid imagery, tender¬ 
ness of feeling; glowing power of description, brilliant 
command of language, and that immortal and seldom at¬ 
tained faculty of painting in the soul of the listener or 
reader a realistic picture whose sublimity of conception 
impresses the understanding with awe and admiration, and 
impels *he mind to rise involuntarily tor the time to an el¬ 
evation out of and above the inconsequent contemplation 
of the common and sordid things of life. 


WHAT HE SAID AT HIS BROTHER’S GRAVE. 


The following grand oration was delivered by Hon. 
Robert G. Ingersoll on the occasion of the funeral of his- 
brother, Hon. Ehen E. Ingersoll, in Washington dune 2: 

My Friends : 

I am going to do that vvnich the dead oft promised he 
would do for me. The loved and loving brother, husband, 
father, friend, died wlieie manhood’s morning almost 
touches noon, and while the shadows were ,still falling to¬ 
wards the we-t. He had not passed on life’s highway the 
stone that marks the highest point, but being weary for a 
moment he lay down by the wayside, and using his bur 
dens for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses 
down the eyelids. Still, while yet in love with life and 
raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic 
dust. Yet, after all, it may be best dust in the h tppies r 
sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eiger winds are kb- 
sing every sad, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an 
instant to hear the billows roar, “A Sunken Ship,” for 





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whether in mid sea or among the breakers of the far¬ 
ther shore, a wreck must mark at last the end of each and 
all, and every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with 
love, and every moment jeweled with a joy, will at its close 
become a tiagedy as sad and deep and dark as can be wo¬ 
ven of the warp and woof of mystery and death. 

This brave and tender man in every storm of life was 
oak and rock, but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. 
He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights 
and left all superstition far below, while on his forehead 
fell the golden dawning of a grander diy. He loved the 
beautiful, and was with color, form and music, touched to 
tears. He sided with the w k ak, and with a willing hand 
gave alms With loyal heart, and with the purest hand he 
faithfully discharged all public trusts. He was a worship¬ 
per of liberty and friend of the oppressed. A thousand 
times 1 have heard him quote the words, “For justice all 
place temple, and seasons summer.’’ He believed that hap¬ 
piness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the 
only worshiper, humanity the only religion, and love the 
priest. He added to the sum of human joy, and were ev 
erv one for whom he did some loving service to bring a 
blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wil 
derness of flowers. 

Life is a narrow vale between ih 3 cold and barren peaks 
of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the 
heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo 
of our wailing cry. From voiceless lips of the unr*plying 
dead there comes no word, but the light of death Hope 
sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. 
He who sleeps here when dying, mistaking the approach 
of death for return of health, whispered with his 
latest breath, “ I am better now V Let us believe, in sj it 3 
of doubts and dogmas, and tears and fears, that these dear 
words are true of all the countless dead. And now, to you 
who have been chosen from among the many men he loved 
to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred 
dust Speech can not contain our love. Theie was, theie 
is, no gent er, stronger, manlier man. 


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AT THE GRAVE OF A CHILD. 


Col. Ingersol! upon one occasion waa one of a little party 
of sympathizing friends who had gathered in a drizzling 
i*rain to assist the sorrowing friends of a young boy—a 
bright and stainles* flower, cut off in the bloom of its 
beauty and virgin purity by the ruthless north winds from 
the Piutoman shades—in the last sad office of committing 
the poor e-lav to the bosom of its mother earth. Inspired 
by tha: true sympathy of the great heart of a great man, 
Col.lngersoll stepped to the side of the grave and spoke 
as follows : 

“My friends, \ know howvain it is to gild grief with words, 
and yet I wish to take from every graye its fear. Here in 
this world, where life and death are equal kings, all should 
be brave enough to meet what all the dead have met. 

The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted 
by the heartless past. From the wondrous tree or life the 
buds and blossoms fall with ripened fruit, and in the com¬ 
mon bed of earth the patriarchs and babes sleep side by 
side. Why should we fear that which will come to all that 
is? We cannot tell; we do not know which is the greater 
blessing—life or death. We can not say that death is not 
as good; we do not know whether the grave is the end of 
this life or the door of another, or whether the night here 
is not some where else a dawn. Neither can we tell which 
is the more fortunate, the child dying in its mother’s arms, 
before its lips have learned to form a word, or he who 
journeys »ll the length of life’s uneven road, taking the 
last slow steps painfully with stnff and crutch Every cra¬ 
dle a ks us ‘whence,” and eyery coffin, “whither?” The 
poor barbarian, w-eeping above tns dead, can answer these 
qu stions as intelligently and as satisfactorily as the robed 
p iist of the most authentic creed. The tearful ignorance 
of the one is ju3t as good as the learned and unmeaning 
words of the other. No man, standing where the horizon 
of life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a 
future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death 
gives all there is of worth to live. 

If those we press and strain against our hearts could 
never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. 



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May be this common late treads from out the paths be¬ 
tween our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I 
had rather live and love where death is king, than have 
eternal life where love is not. Another life is naught, un 
less we know and love again the ones who love us here. 
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little 
qrave need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith 
in all that is and is to be, tells us that death, even at 
its worst, is only perfect rest. We know that the 
common wants of life, the needs and duties of each hour, 
their grief will lessen day by day, until at last these graves 
will be to them a place of rest and peace, almost ot joy. 
There is for them this consolation, the dead do not suffer. 
If they live again their lives will surely he as good as ouis. 
We haye uo fear; we are ail the children of the same 
mother, and the same father awaits us all. We, too, have 
our religion, and it is this; “Help for the living; hope for 
The dead.” 


A BOHEMIAN SONG TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH 
LANGUAGE. 


WHERE IS MY HOME? 


Where is my home, where h my home ? 
Over leas are waters streanrag, 

On the hills bine forests dreaming— 
Floweiy wolds, Springs happy skits, 
Like as earthly paradise; 

There’s the land so full of beauty, 
Bohemia is my fatherland ! 

Bohemia i» my fatherland ! 

Where is my home, where is my home! 
Where God self to man had spoken, 
Gentle he, but never broken, 

Ever cheerful, hopeful, strong; 

Bravely thwarting any wrong; 

There’s the land of manly honor, 





Bohemia is my fatherland ! 
Bohemia is my fatherland ! 


Song in Bohemian language, Where is My Home? 
KDE DOMOR MUJ. 


Kde domov muj, kcle domov muj? 
Voda huce polucinach, 
bory sunii poskalinach, 
v sade stkvi se zjara kvet, 

Zemsky raj to na yohled! 

A to jest ta krasna zeme, 

Zeme ceska domov muj ! 

Zeme ceska domov muj i 

/< 

Rde domov muj, kde domov muj ? 
v krail znas—li bohumilem 
dme utie v tele cilem. 

Mvsl jasnou vzn.k a zdar, 
a tu silu vzdoru zmar? 

To je Cechuv slavne pleme, 

Mezi Cechy domov muj ! 

Mezi Cechy domov muj ! 


A BOHEMIAN SONG, HEY SLOVANIANS. TRANS¬ 
LATED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 


Hey Slovamans ! our Slavic language still is living, 

Long as our true loyai hearts are for our Nation striving, 
Lives, lives the Slovanic spirit and ’twill live forever; 

] : Hell and thunder ! vain against us all you rage shall 
shiver ! : j 

Language is the gift of God, our God who 8wavs the 
thunder; 






In the world may none our language from us put asunder. 
Though as many devils come as earth with people swarm- 

eth. 


| : God is with us a Perun against our opponents storm- 
eth. : | 

Fearful may the tempest o’er us hover, rocks may crumble, 

Oaks may split, and all around may yawning earthquakes 
tremble. 

Like a castle’s wall we’li stand, a hrm and steadfast na¬ 
tion. 

| : May black earth, the scoundrel, swallow who deserts 
his station. 


SONG IN BOHUMIAN LANGUAGE. 


HEJ SLONANE. 


Hej Sloyane, jeste nase Sloyanska 
rec zije, pokud nase verne srdce 
pronas narod bije, zije, zije 
duch Slovansky, bude zit na veky; 

| : hrom a peklo, marne vase proti 
nam jsou vzteky. i | 

Jazyka zdar sveril nam Buh, Buh nas hromov- 
ladny 

nesmi nam ho tedy vyrvat na tom 
svete zadny; i nechat je koliko 
lidi, tolik certu v svete. 

I : Buh je 8 nami, kdo proti nam, 
toho Perun smete.. 

Nechat take se nad nami hra^na 





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boure vznese, Skala paka dub se lame zeme at 
Se trese: my stojime stale pevne, jako steny 
hradne. 

| : Cerna zem pohlti toho, kdo 
odstoupi zradne. : | 


WOULD WE RETURN. 


Would we return 

If once the crates which closed upon the past 
Were opened wide for us, and if the dear 
Remembered pathway stretched before us clear 
To lead us back to youth’s lost land at last, 

When on life’s April shadows lightly cast, 

Recalled the old sweet days of childish fear 
With all their faded hopes, and brought anear 
The far off streams with which our skies were 
glassed; 

Did those lost dreams which wake the soul’s sad 
yearning 

But live once more and waited our returning, 
Would we return ? 

Would we return 

Once we had crossed to death’s unlovely land, 

And trod the bloomle^s ways among the dead, 

Lone and unhappy; after years had fled 
With twilight wings along that glimmering strand,. 
If then—an angel came with outstretched hand 
To lead us back; and we recalled in dread 
How soon the teais that once for us were shed 
May flow for others—how like words in sand 
Our memory fades away—how oft our waking 
Might vex the living with the dead heart’s break¬ 
ing, 

Would we return— 

Would we return ? 


—Robert Burns Willson 




95 

THE MURDERER. 


AN UNPUBLISHED POEM BY EDGAR ALLEN POE. 

Yet glittering stars ! how fair ye shine to-night, 
And O, thou beauteous moon, thy fairy light 
Is peeping through those iron bars so near me. 
How silent is the night—how clear and bright 1 
I nothing hear, nor aught there is to hear me. 
Shunned by all as if the world did fear me; 
Alone in chains ! Ah, me ! the cursed spell 
That brought me here. 

Heaven co..ld net cheer me 

Within these walls—within this dark, cold cell, 

This gloomy, dreary, solitary hell. 

And thou, so slow, 0 Time ! so passing slow; 
Keeoing my soul in bondage in this woe 
So torturing—this uncontrollable pain; 

Was I to blame? I was, they say. Then so 
Be it. Will this deep, sanguinary stam 
Of my dark crime forever haunt my brain? 
Must 1 live here and never, never hear 
The sweetness of a friend by voice again? 

Must I this torture feel year after year? 

Live, die in hell, and Paradise so near? 

Am I dead to Thee, O Christ? 

Thou who sought 

The prisoner in his lonely cell; taught 
Him to feel the enchantment of Thy love— 

Am I dead to Thee? 

Canst Thou be brought 

By prayer from Thy celestial throne above 

Into this darkened cell? 

Dost Thou, too, reprove my soul? 

Thou, too, doom it to endless misery ! 

Am I so hardened that 1 can not move 
The Divine, forgiving love in Thee ? 

Canst Thou be Christ and have no love for me? 
What! lost am I? ne’er will 1 feel the bliss 
Of Heaven? Ne’er feel the joys above this 
World of sm? What! never ? Is my destiny 
Hell? Into that dark fathomless abyss 



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Of sin and crime? Into that misery 
Eternal? into that unquenchable sea 
Oi fire? Is there my future—is it there? 

Ah ! it comes before my eyes. 

See! See! Ye Infernal fiends! 

‘Why come here? How dare ye come? 

Away ? Mock me not with your stare ! 

Away ye fiends ! Why at me now? Am I 
Not hardened yet? Am I not fit for hell? Why 
Test me again? Oh, horrors, hear the groans 
Of tortured victims ! Ah ! See them lie 
Bleeding in chains ! Hear 
The mocking moans 

Of the maddened demons, in deep wild tones ! 

See them hurl their victims into the hot mire ! 

Now seethe devils dance— 

What! Are they stones? 

Haye they no heart, no love, no kind desire? 
Tearfully reveling midst Jehovah’s fire l 

Cries ! Cries! Horrible cries assail my ears ! 

I see her ! My murdered victim now appears 
Before me ! Hear her pleading for mercy; 

Ah ! See her stare, 

With eyes swollen with tears; 

Horrors! See her white arms outstretched to me, 
Begging for life ! O, woe ! O, misery ! 

Take me, demons ! Take me out of this cell, 

Satan; I’m thine! Hear, hear, I call on thee; 

Torture me—reck me with the pains of hell; 

Do what thou wilt, but break this maddening spell. 

Listen ! What’s'that? My soul, they come they 
come, 

The demons come to take thee to thy home ! 

See ! See! No! No ! O heavens! What brought this 
Pale skeleton here? Speak ! Speak ! What! Dumb? 
And hast thou naught to say? What is thy office? 
Away fiend ! What! move not for me ! 

What is thy want? Speak, devil, speak ! 

Come, unsheath thy tongue. 

Com’st thou from the dark abyss of sin? 

Hold; bold ! 1 know—thee—my breath ! 

Ha ! Ha ! 1 know thee now—’tis death ! ’tis death. 


INDEX, 


KO. 1. - PAGE 

LAUNDRY DEPARTMENT. 5 


To break hard wattr. 

“ wash silks. 

‘‘ gloss shirts. . 

u wash flannels. 

*■ clean furs. 

“ clean hats. 

u clean kid gloves. 

4 ‘ wash ribbons of all colors except 

pinK. 

“ wash calico... 

“ gloss shirts. 

“ gloss heavy silks. 


5 
5-7 

6 
6 
6 
6 


7 

7 

7 

7 


COSMETIQUE DEPARTMENT. 8 


flair Tonic. 8 

To promote’ growth of hair or beard 8 

Cure for bad breath. 8 

For wrinkles on the face. 8 

W ash for a blotched face. 8 

“To remove warts from the hands.... 9 

“ clear a tanned skin. 9 

u make hair curl. 9 

cleanse the teeth. 9 

soften and bleach the skin. 9 

For the teeth and gums. 9 

Hair oil. v ... 10 

Freckles, to remove. 10 

Baldness, to cure. 10 

Hair growing lotions. 10 

Perspiring feet and hands. 1© 


MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 11 

Rules for health. 12 

Rules for the sick. 13 

Diptheria. 13-16 *25 

Tousilitis. 13 

Convulsions. 11 



































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PAGE 

Asthma cure. ^ 

Indigestion. ^ 

Neuralgia, (Internal). 15 

Foi tape worm.15-29 

Vermifuge for children. 15 

Burns and scalds. 15 

Kidney remedy.. J5 

Neuralgia of face... 16-39 

Indian herb bark tonic. 16 

Medical terms.. 1^ 

Small pox and scarlet fever. 18 

For dropsy.• 18 

Chill tonic.. 18 

Pneumonia cure. 18 

Liver pellets. 19 

For consumption. 19-40 

Inflammatory rheumatism. 19 

Meningitis remedy. 19 

Eve water for common sore eves 20-25 

For hydrophobia. . 20-4g 

Yellov jaundice. 20 

For pains and aches. 21 

Cholera and-cholera morbus cure. 21-35 

Pain killer. 21 

Magic liniment No. 2. 21 

Internal remedv for rheumatism. .. 21 

European treatment for ulcerated 

bowels. 22 

Pile ointment. 22 

For jaundice.• • 23 

For sore throat.. 23 

A gargle for the throat.. 23 

Fever drops.. 23 

Elixir of life.... . 24 

Cough syrup .... 24 

An excellent tonic . 24 

For the blood. 24 

Tonic for nervousness. 24 

A great cancer cure. 25 

Membranous croup...26-29 

Toothache. ... 26-29 










































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PAGE, 

Tobacco habit antidote. 26 

For stiff joints. 26 

Ivv poison. /. 27 

For children,sure cure for diarrhoea 27 29 

For prickly heat. ... 27 

Flux and dysentery. 27 

Catarrh. 28-28-40-41 

For burns. 28 

For pleunsv.. . 28 

To check vomiting. 28 

To reduce flesh. 29 

Instantaneous pain killer.. 29 

Whooping cough. 29 30 

Astringent drops,. 30 

Suppressed menses. 30 

For deafness.. 30 

Cure for drunkenness.. 30-41 

Toothache and neuralgia,. 31 

Signs of diseases in infants. 31 

Test for carbonic acid in water. 32 

Test for magnesia in water.. . 32 

Test for acid in water. 32 

Fish bone in the throat. 32 

Test for iron in water . 32 

Test for lime in water. 33 

Test for hard and soft water. 33 

Test for earthy matters of alkali in 

water. 33 

Drowning treatment. 33 

The plague or black death. 34 

Ointment for sore nipples. 34 

Bilious complaints. 34 

So stop blood. 35-38 

Bowels swelled in children. 35 

Mixture of castor oil. 35-40 

Ointment for itch. 35 

Painters’ colic. 36 

Test for real death. 36 

Weeping eye cure . 37 

Bonefelon cure. 37 

For chapped lips. ..... 37 

For sore lips. 38 


L. of 0. 









































100 


PAGE- 

Mumps treatment.. .. ,. 38 

For barbers’ itch. 38 

For snake bi^. 30 

Uncle Sara’s nerve and bone liniment 39 

Fluid lightning. 39 

Hamlin’s wizard oil. 39 

For thrash. 40 

One minute croup remedy. 40 

Sprained ankle. 40 

To disinfect a house. 41 

Liquid sulphur for eczema. 42-47 


MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 42 

Universal polish. 42 

To keep cider sweet. 42 

“ make grape wine. 42 

A superior glue. 42 

To clearify water. 43 

Enamel (instantaneous;. 43 

Shoe blacking (Masons’). 43 

Soft soap. 43 

Corn salve. 44 

$ u. 00 washing lluid. 44 

Tc remove grease spots. 44 

Waterproof blacking. 44 

Crystal cement. 44 

Fisherman’s trick. 45 

Rodium bait for fish. 45 

Fly paper. 45 

Chicken cholera cure. 45^ 

Chicken mites. 45 

Jeweler’s gold (imitation). 45 

Pinchback gold. 46 

Sliver plating. 48 

Chinese bluing. 46 

Black ink. 46-49 

blue ink. .. 46 

Fluid match. 46- 

Mosquito lotion.. 47 

Bedbug exterminator. 47 

Incombustible paper. 47 








































PAGE. 


To preserve lamp chimneys from 

breaking.. 

To destroy mice. 

Gnats. 

Cement to mend iron pots and pans 
Cement to stick metal tops on glass 

bottles,.. 

Perfumery.... 

To preserve milk.. . 

“ restore milk i oioh - mr.... 


Yellow ink., . 

Ani 1 ine m k -, 1 kferent colors. 

To keep worms from dry fruit. 

To destrov flits and insects.ftj. . 

Razor strap paste. . 

To prevent nails from rust. 

How to pack eggs for hatching.... 

To protect trees. 

To mend tinware. 

Liquid sulphur for disinfecting... . 

To kill ants. 

Bedbugs, lice and fleas. 

Waterproof for boots. 

Eggs to keep. 

To keep eggs 5 years. 

To clean knives. 

Cement for china ware. 

To clean tinware. 

Dry shampoo or sea foam. 

To make soap without lye, grease or 

heat. 

Green ittk. 

Gold ink,. 

Invisible ink... 

Silver ink. 

Luminous ink. 

For the hair. 

Ainalgum for mirrors. 


“ keep h 
Secret 

Violet ink.. 


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To put an egg in a bottle. 

tk stop bleeding at nose. 

“ holding blazing lire m hand. 

To test eggs.. ... 

To clean rubber tubes and coils in 

beer coder ... ...... 

ki take out arnish spots from cloth 
How to edh names or designs on 

steei ... 

Fish will bite your bait . 

To polish pike glass and remove 

slight scratches.. 

A preparation that will preserve nat¬ 
ural flowers. 

To kep-p boq pet fresh.. 

I Pjpid cement tor cementing leather, 
that*will not be affected by 

wateV. 

/To make hand fire grenades. 

' l make cheap concrete. 

<£ rnc.hfe instantaneous ink and stain 

J' extractor. 

Metal polish for cleaning and polish 

mg brass.. 

To cleanse carpets on the floor to 

make them look bright. 

Bedbug poison . 

How to preserve fence posts. 

B. piano polish. 

Egg tumble about. 

To make egg stand upon the large 

end. 

Three liquids in a glass. 

Magic flask. 


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Incombustible roof paint. 60 

Whitewash, outside. 60 

Glass varnish or paint.. 69 

Cheap varnish..... 60 

Ivory varnish- . 6T 

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Painter’s putty. 61 

Slating paint. 61 

Guilding size. . . 61 

Implement paint. 61 

House dainting.,. 61 

Furniture polish. 62 

To chrystalize glass. 62 

Paint for rough wood... 62 

Fire proof par , . 62 

Water color f 63 

- 'Carriage painting.;. . . 63 

nusih. 63 

Black tar paint -will not burn. .. 63 

FAKI.jEK DEPARTMENT. 64 

Sw - in and ringbone.. 61 

Poll evil... 64 

Sweeney. 64 

Scratches.-.. 

Heayp. .edy.; 6 ^ 

Sp IrSfi fever in cattle. 65 - 

Arnica horse liniment. 65 

To judge a horse’s age. 65 

break and train horses. 65 

“ make a balky horse go. 68 

u break a horse from breaking h\ fi‘ 

halter. *08 

Hog cholera./ ■ 68 

For ulcerated surfaces, an extern::! 

astringent powder. 69 

Ointment for sore heel. 69 

For splints, ringbone, spavin* etc.; a 

strong, sweating blister...... 69 

Diaphoretic drench. 69 

Medicine tor horses—laxaP- e drench 70 

For blind staggers... 70 

For bloody urine. 76 

To kill ticks, fleas or lice. 70 

Beaumont oil. 70 

For scours in horses.. 71 

For founder. 71 




































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Horse colic ..... 71 

Te kill ticks on stock. 71 


LAW. 72 

Government and political economy.. 72 

Infants in the law. 72 

Fraud.,./ . 73 

Law of copyrights. 74 

Civil government United States.... 75 

Legislative branch. 75 

Power of eong.ro* ).. .. 75 

Ch< ks to cong, isionai powers- 76 

C on the powers of the state... 76 

S A - are prohibited unless by con¬ 
sent i congress. 77 

- i ii o use f jpresentatives. 77 

Exe.ctiti e department. 78 

Vice resident 79 

Cab' ct officers, eight 79 


JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. 80 
ne supreme court 80 

Jurisdiction of supreme court 81 

Circuit court of appeals 81 

United States district court 82 

Political economy 82 

Canons of taxation 83 

Fundamental principles 84 

Table of weights 85 

A demand note 86 

Joint note 87 

Note not negotiable 87 

Receipt on account 87 

Receipt in full 87 

Master pieces of eloquence 88 

At a brother’s grave 88 

At the grave of a child 90 

Bohemian song 91 

Hey, Slovanians 92 

He} r , Slovanians, in Bohemian 93 

Would we return? 94 

The murder 95 




















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